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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
 
1850-1899'Mr Corrie the Presbyterian minister read prayers to & addressed the prisoners.'Mr Corrie prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers & preached to the prisoners.'Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the prisoners, in my estimation I would be better to have no clergyman at all than to provide such as this gentleman...Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'Mr Corrie [unknown]prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 October 1821: 'I read her [invalid Elizabeth Barrett's] prayers to her today in the bible, & she has altogether b...Mary Moulton-Barrett prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 5 April 1829: 'Read prayers to what remains of our [house] party, being Anne [daughter], my niece Anne, the four Skenes and William Forbes.'Walter Scott PrayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.'anon prayers and exhortationPrint: Book
1700-1799'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious duties, particularly in reading the Holy Scriptures...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonPrayers and MeditationsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' Juliana Horatia Ewing Samuel JohnsonPrayers and Meditations [?]Print: Book
1850-1899From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'He came into my room one day looking for any new book to feed upon: he took down one by Stevenson called P...Alfred Tennyson StevensonPraying and WorkingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds that has appeared in any language'James Boswell Robert DodsleyPreceptor, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, a...Hilary Spalding Mary WebbPrecious BanePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Rosamund Wallis Mary WebbPrecious BaneUnknown
'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		[unknown member of the XII Book Club] Mary WebbPrecious BanePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads "histoire de la Revolution par Rabault".'Percy Bysshe Shelley P.J. Rabaut Saint-EtiennePrecis histoire de la Revolution francaise redige ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after...Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Jean Dominque de LacretellePrecis historique de la Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843: 'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & conciliating, .. so Christian-heartedly [...] that it almo...Elizabeth Barrett William MerryPredestination and Election, Considered Scriptural...Print: Book
1800-1849Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irving's new book; I have not yet been able to read it ...anon IrvingprefacePrint: Book
1800-1849John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent,...John Playfair Mary BerryPreface and notes to Letters of Madame du DeffandPrint: Book


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