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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
 
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ernest Frederic NeveBeyond the Pir Panjal: Life Among the Mountains an...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich SteffensBeytrage zur innern Naturgeschichte der ErdePrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.Barbara Savile BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would e...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "I went to school to learn to write and cipher,...anon BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...We often had ministers to dinner and supper...anon BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a column of spelling to learn by heart every morning ...Francis Place BiblePrint: Book


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