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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read it, too, when I learned to read; it is a bit old fas...Joseph Stamper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'Jane Austen Acts 27:44Print: Book
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now bu...Sir William Coventry Thomas CrossSternhold and Hopkins PsalmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield The story of Jonah and the WhalePrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I per...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'John Pepys [n/a][Greek Bible]Print: Book
1700-1799'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three bo...James Hogg Old TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'maids of Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she ha...Janet Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous method, and by getting hold of all commentries and wor...Harriet Martineau The BiblePrint: Book


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