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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 25 May 1829: 'I have received the Bishop of Limerick's book, & thank you for sending it [...] I read one Sermon last night, & th...Elizabeth Barrett John JebbSermons on Subjects Chiefly PracticalPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the...Mary Wollstonecraft Richard PriceSermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by ...Print: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington BentleySermons on the Folly of AtheismPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasoning in them and seem wrote with an ardent spirit of pi...Thomas Turner Thomas SherlockSermons on various subjects, moral and theological...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of Englan...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdSermons preached at Lincoln?s-InnPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Sermon II. Forgiveness a present mercy", ms note = "GFI ...clergyman Henry BluntSermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper ChelseaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinSermons preached to a country congregationPrint: Book
1700-1799'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons to young Women'Hester Lynch Thrale James FordyceSermons to Young WomenPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I entreat you to like, as I do, exceedingly. -- It is...Catherine Talbot James FordyceSermons to Young WomenPrint: Book
1500-1599'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon'Margaret Hoby George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1500-1599'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: sone after I went to breakfast'Richard Rhodes George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching he seems to give two guesses at the me...Benjamin Newton Richard HurdSermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward IrvingSermons, Lectures and Occasional DiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, PolwheleAnne Lister Richard PolwheleSermons: a new volumePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M...Millicent Duchess of Sutherland John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book


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