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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
 
1700-1799?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as we...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and ap...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been rea...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing sourc...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the appl...Thomas Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'.Fanny Kemble The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a g...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord ena...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding AnonBook of GenesisPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding NehemiahBook of NehemiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honou...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.Charlotte Mew Line Upon LinePrint: Book
1700-1799'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me think that they know many matters of which I was to...James Lackington unknownvariousUnknown
1700-1799?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answered one valuable purpose; as it caused me to embrace...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did ...Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made ...Mary Berry Psalms and chaptersPrint: Book


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