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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
 
1800-1849All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.Anne Lister BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts!Anne Lutton 'Scriptures'Print: Book
My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! 'Scriptures'Print: Book
1850-1899'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No c...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Bible (Old Testament), thePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t...Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther)Print: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...father of Thomas Jones The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and k...The Bible  Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson [Old Testament]Print: Book
1850-1899'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas...John Paton [Old and New Testament]Print: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differently in prison to the way I had interpreted it outs...Annie Kenney [Bible]Print: Book
1900-1945'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before...Helen Crawfurd [Bible - Psalms]Print: Book
1900-1945Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thou...Patricia Beer The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through the Bible had got once more to Kings and intoned a c...Mr Bugg The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book


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