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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'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes...John Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an...Poor men of Chelmsford New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'William Richard Grahame n/aNew TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called th...Mary Augusta Ward New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, wou...Samuel Bamford [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the appl...Thomas Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did ...Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, who remembers reading with her 'parts of the New Tes...Harriet Martineau and friend New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mother's substitute for Sunday school when she happened...family of Hannah Mitchell [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin New Testament
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '4370. Has been here 4 times, and is senten...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '4429. Has been here 7 times. "I have learn...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: '129. Prussian Jew. Attends chapel. "I was ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: 'Committed June 1st, 1849, sentenced to 2 y...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book


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