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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'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped....John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Chronicles)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1850-1899'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Peter)Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825: 'I have begun reading the Bible with notes regularly. I always liked what ...Harriet Countess Granville BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.'Walter Scott Bible: EcclesiastesUnknown
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1700-1799'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'William Gifford BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain: 'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings. He has certainly matched M...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1800-1849Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822: 'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he had read "Cain" some time ago, -- that he thinks it c...George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1850-189925 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return home: 'It must have been 1/2 past 2 ere I was in bed...Lady Charlotte Schreiber PsalmPrint: Book
1850-1899'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonChristianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testi...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volca...Mr Rutherford BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beau...Richardson children PsalmsPrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beau...Richardson children LessonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly un...Edmund Blunden The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte BiblePrint: Book


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