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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'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson Book of Common PrayerPrint: Book
1700-1799'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the da...Samuel Johnson Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day]Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church'Richard Rhodes [unknown]Book of DisciplinePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding AnonBook of GenesisPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Book of GenesisPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a g...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;...Thomas Carlyle Book of JobPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'June 8th. We went home by Winchester and slept there, and lunched with the Warburtons [...] He [Tennyson] and Mr Warburton compare...Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Book of JudgesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (espec...Dorothy Wordsworth John FoxBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."Angela Brazil John FoxeBook of Martyrs
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1600-1699'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.Roger Lowe John FoxeBook of Martyrs Print: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book


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