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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
 
1700-1799'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shor...James Hogg Bible [Proverbs]Print: Book
1700-1799'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. I was greatly taken with our version of the Psalms o...James Hogg Bible [Psalms]Print: Book
1850-1899'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate him and I took refuge in that admirable poem, The Son...Robert Louis Stevenson Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5.Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Bible, thePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Bible, thePrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t...Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther)Print: Book
1800-1849'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.'Walter Scott Bible: EcclesiastesUnknown
1500-1599'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible?Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Biblia HebraicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged almost thirteen] had made myself miserable, after read...Elizabeth Sewell Biblical story of JephthahPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' John Cole Thomas Frognall DibdinBibliographical DecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black La...John Cole Thomas Frognall DibdinBibliographical DecameronPrint: Book
1850-1899'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dictionary" "Fell into ...Alfred Edward Housman John LempriereBibliotheca Classica Print: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an ...Gabriel Harvey Richard PercevalBibliotheca HispanicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read a Magazine called Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve'.Claire Clairmont Bibliotheque Universelle de GenevePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellBiglow Papers, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dreadfull Number - and shows reason to fear that the plag...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster


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