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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'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry , Journal, 18 September 1836: 'I have been unequal this day to anything but reading my Bible for amusement; for I cannot say that I am capable of any reasoning...Mary Berry The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all ...Harriet Martineau The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying...Thomas A. Jackson [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous method, and by getting hold of all commentries and wor...Harriet Martineau The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen t...Jane Sewell The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. But wait! I forgot the Bible! A humane Prison Commiss...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, and that inbred corruption wherby I hated all things t...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would] studye hard to gett up what I had lost in the read...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares according to Mr Bifield's directions [i.e. Nicholas Byfi...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I to...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Conrad] one or twice said that when he was going down Ratcliffe Highway [from the City to Limehouse, East End of London] he was jumped out at from a doorway by a gen...Joseph Conrad The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'When asked how he passed the time in the [ship's jail] cell, [Edward] Pullen replied, "Just read the Bible, that's all. Nothing else. You wouldn't have nothing else ... ...Edward Pullen The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'Emma Darwin The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years .....John Edward Needham The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699She would every yeare read over the whole Bible in an ordinary course, which course she constantly observed for the space of fifteene yeares together, beginning her t...Mary Gunter The BiblePrint: Book


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