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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
 
1900-1945'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily. He hits the nail on the head. Also "Screwtape...Hilary Spalding C.S. LewisScrewtape Letters, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HacketScrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer'd to the Great ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CaveScriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia LiterariaPrint: Book
1800-1849"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'John Cole RobinsonScripture CharactersPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise conti...John Carter [n/a]ScripturesPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in t...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book
1500-1599In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification ...Thomas Gataker ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ...Amelia Opie ScripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1700-1799Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her understanding not fully enlightened as to the fulln...Catherine Gurney [n/a]ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in Aug. 1940 -- that the air raids are now at their pre...Virginia Woolf ScrutinyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'William Wordsworth PetrarchSe la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)Unknown
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell David Herbert LawrenceSea and SardiniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'10 [a.m.] service then walked ... Read Sea Urchins by Jacobs.'William Thomas William Wymark JacobsSea UrchinsPrint: Book
1900-1945'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the ch...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Search the ScripturesPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus some ms notes in ink on binding page. The ink note...James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to ...Lucy Maud Montgomery James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, im...Thomas Carter James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale James ThomsonSeasons, The - 'Spring'Print: Book


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