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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
 
1700-1799I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of...Francis Place BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T...Richard Baxter BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr n/aBiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.Anne Lister BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.Margaret Oliphant BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'Katherine Mansfield BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....Edmund Gosse BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt...Elizabeth Fry BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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