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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
 
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
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan [n/a]Roget's ThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul [n/a]The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my t...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TelemaquePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without...Charles Manby Smith [n/a][newspaper advertisements]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'Charles Manby Smith [n/a]MoniteurPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper


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