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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
 
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....Edmund Gosse BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...Edmund Gosse Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies BiblePrint: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Apostle PaulAddress to AgrippaPrint: Book
1800-184914/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'Amelia Opie [n/a]PsalmPrint: Book
1800-1849'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ...Amelia Opie ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt...Elizabeth Fry BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel...Amelia Opie Bible and other religious textsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an...Poor men of Chelmsford New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Bible passagesPrint: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain The BiblePrint: Book


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