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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'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...Alexander Macneill BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have...Martin n/aOld and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my t...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I co...Harriet Martineau Old and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was...Christopher Thomson [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them ove...Thomas Catling [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1700-1799??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, wou...Samuel Bamford [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;...Thomas Carlyle Book of JobPrint: BookManuscript: Letter


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