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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'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, co...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of Revelations in his...Charles Hamilton Sorley Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Romans)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened 3rd of Tobit'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Tobit)Print: Book
1600-1699'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Going to get a drink of water, she left] her Bible ope...Janet Fraser Bible - Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownBible - the ApocryphaPrint: Book
1800-1849"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel...Amelia Opie Bible and other religious textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row comm...Florentia Sale Bible and Prayer BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...Elizabeth Ann Smith George BorrowBible in Spain, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Bible passagesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
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B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Marr MurrayBible Prophecies and the Present WarPrint: Book
1700-1799'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in which the Apostle, whose words I have now been readin...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4]Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'Betty Shaw [n/a]Bible ['her Testament']Print: Book
1700-1799'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced all the day long, & saw everything in a new light ... ...Benjamin Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the scriptures']Print: Book
1800-1849'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off ...Hannah Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the Scriptures']Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'Polly Castieau [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Kate read a chapter'Kate [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter'Kate [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]Bible [most likely]Print: Book
1700-1799'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and the Testament of an evening I feel it a [underline] ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]Bible [Old Testament]Print: Book


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