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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
 
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants.....Lady E.K. [unknown][Bible probably]Print: Book
1800-1849[reading the Bible], Robert Story, an early nineteenth century shepherd-poet, described the experience: "The unconsumed bush burned before me - the successive plagues tha...Robert Story [Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"...Frederick Rogers [Bible]Print: 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
1850-1899School for female prisoners at Holloway: 'On a subsequent day we visited the class with the matron, which was then engaged with the Bible lesson. Most of the prisoners ...female prisoners at Holloway [n/a][Bible]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson William Lowth[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Patrick[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1850-1899'[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical criticism that Mrs Ward had placed in his room, and would i...John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton [biblical criticism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Today, much helped by my brown book'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verse]Unknown
1600-1699'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane t...Samuel Pepys [n/a][bill advertising cockfight]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1600-1699'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1900-1945'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constantly imitated then and for years after", says Sutton; ...Philip Larkin Frank Richards[Billy Bunter stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the las...		Alice Joselin Alice Joselin[biographical essay on William Blake]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

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<...		Edgar Castle Edgar Castle[biographical facts of G. K. Chesterton’s career]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Carl Zeller]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Edward Elgar]Manuscript: Unknown


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