the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Book of Job	Print: Book
	1500-1599	After priuat praers I did read of the bible'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'His lesson consisted of Bible reading, turn and turn round the class, of reciting from memory the names of the kings of Israel and repeating the Church Catechism.'	Flora Thompson		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher	A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St Luke	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'	Joseph Hunter	Humphrey Prideaux	The Old and New Testament Connected	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'	Joseph Hunter	Philip Doddridge	The Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and Version	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced all the day long, & saw everything in a new light ... ...	Benjamin Shaw	[n/a]	Bible ['the scriptures']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off ...	Hannah Shaw	[n/a]	Bible ['the Scriptures']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'	Betty Shaw	[n/a]	Bible ['her Testament']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read th...	John Clare	[n/a]	Solomon's Song	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping every moment, that my Father might expound it, vers...	Philip Gosse	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'	Philip Gosse	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently m...	Mary Birch	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...	Edwin Muir	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying...	Thomas A. Jackson	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover ...	Jack Common	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book

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