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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	World	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...	John Ruskin	Octave Feuillet	La Petite Comtesse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...	John Ruskin	G. Baker	[Gladstone]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'	John Ruskin	Edward Fitzgerald	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'	John Ruskin	Isaac Taylor	Natural History of Enthusiasm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Sir T. More in evening'	John Ruskin	Sir Thomas More	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roma Sotternea	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'	John Ruskin	anon	History of Fair Rosamond	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'	John Ruskin	Froude	Carlyle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Citizen of the World, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Aladdin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped....	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Chronicles)	Print: Book

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