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

	1500-1599	When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes...	John Carter	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1500-1599 1600-1699	For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise conti...	John Carter	[n/a]	Scriptures	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo...	George Gordon Lord Byron		Books of Old Testament	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m...	John Ruskin		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.'	Hall Caine		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...	Leslie Stephen		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.	Margaret Oliphant		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ...	Edmund Gosse		Lesson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'	Katherine Mansfield		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...	Mark Grossek	n/a	The Song of Solomon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...	Mark Grossek	n/a	Leviticus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...	Ethel Mannin	n/a	Song of Solomon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...	Ethel Mannin	n/a	Genesis (story of Jacob and Esau)	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'	Arnold Bennett		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'	George Bernard Shaw	St Paul	Epistles	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'	George Bernard Shaw		The Bible	Print: Book

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