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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
 
1800-1849'Another little society of five or six ladies that Mrs Rich belongs to meet once a week to read the Bible and pray together.' The Bible
1800-1849'He (Mr Scott) prays and reads a chapter and then speaks his discourse, which is certainly a very striking piece of oratory.'Elizabeth Wedgwood The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'He (Mr Scott) prays and reads a chapter and then speaks his discourse, which is certainly a very striking piece of oratory.' The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney The Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849[difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas Carter]... not only read Revelations literally: he as...Thomas Carter The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale The Bible and Modern ThoughtPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 December 1848:

'Allow me to mention that my father, as well as my sisters and myself, have derived great pleasure from so...		Patrick Brontë George BorrowThe Bible in SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 4 February 1849:

'I send the parcel [returning books loaned by Williams] up without delay [...] Emerson's ...		Charlotte Brontė George BorrowThe Bible in SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945'At 5 the Chelabi [?local chief] arrived with a large and picturesque following robed in white and armed with rifles. After visiting me he held a mejlis in the der. Befor...Gertrude Bell George BorrowThe Bible in Spain: or, The journeys, adventures, ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1843: 'Mr Borrow [italics]is[end italics] a very original & characteristic writer -- I was delighted with his book...Elizabeth Barrett George BorrowThe Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, ...Print: Book
1600-1699Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead our liues therein. Heere is the iudge that stintes...Susanna Beckwith The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]Print: Book
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock The BioscopePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge AristophanesThe BirdsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Caroline Bowles (the Birthday & the minor verses) is ...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline BowlesThe Birth-DayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approv...		Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningThe Bishop orders his TombManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last...Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Louis StevensonThe Black ArrowPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Robert Louis StevensonThe Black Arrow Print: Book
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Black DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, wh...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds n/aThe Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson The Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper


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