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

	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd.	Hester Lynch Piozzi		The Imperial Family Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'	William Richard Grahame	n/a	New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'	William Richard Grahame		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'	William Richard Grahame	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'	William Richard Grahame	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Before I arose- read 10 chapters of St. Matthew- still laboured at my new task [studying heraldry] but made less progress than on Thursday.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Went to bed at 11- but previous to it, read 10 more chapters of St. Matthew.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I devoted the rest of the night to the Bible- so upon the whole I think, a sabbath has been more unprofitably spent...'	William Upcott	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called th...	Mary Augusta Ward		New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The...			The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t...	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...	John Rogers		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoinin...	Francis Bishop		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument...	anon		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...	Lucy Maud Montgomery		Bible, the	Print: Book

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