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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthsermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.Anne Lister Archibald AlisonSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this lif...Margaret Oliphant Edward CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage...Amelia Opie Stephen CrispSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he ...Leslie Stephen SwiftsermonsPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing sermonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'John Cole BradleySermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Tillotson's Sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799 'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799'Tho. Davy Spent the Even and Supp'd at our house and read 2 of Tillotsons sermons to us.'Tho Davy John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the evening read one of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so f...Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations". Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book


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