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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
 
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1800-1849'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later...Thomas Wood n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but bot...Benjamin Newton biblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'William Richard Grahame BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book


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