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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'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley St MatthewGospelPrint: 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 St MatthewGospelPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have...Wordsworth FamilyFrancis WranghamGospel best promulgated in National Schools, TheUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.'Harriet Martineau Gospel of JohnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'William Thomas Gospel of MatthewPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St LukePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chapters 20 to 30'. Here follows a poem, by "CMG", dated...C.M.G. [anon] Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St MatthewPrint: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she ha...Janet Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she ha...Mary Augusta Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses taken by chance anywhere. It is a delightful way of open...Oscar Wilde GospelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Gospels (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [......Elizabeth Barrett Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen HandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939 - four years ago. And the most pessimistic p...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Government Blue BooksPrint: Book
'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our...James Boswell Richard AllestreeGovernment of the Tongue, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Mrs Smith John BunyanGrace AboundingPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843: '[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon Grace Darling when it first appeared: and with a ...Elizabeth Barrett William WordsworthGrace DarlingUnknown
1800-1849'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very c...Mary Shelley Ida Grafin Hahn-HahnGrafin FaustineManuscript: Unknown


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