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

	1700-1799 1800-1849	?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglecte...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'	Lady Caroline Lamb	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of Bailey?s "Festus", which I read with great admiration...	Thomas Burt	Phillip James Bailey	Festus: A poem	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...	Freya Stark	[Anon] [Anon]	[unidentified manuscript belonging to Saladin]	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...	Freya Stark	[Anon] [Anon]	[unidentified manuscript of the 8th century A.D.]	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...	Freya Stark	[Anon] [Anon]	[unidentified manuscript stamped by the 4th Timuri...	Manuscript: Codex, illuminated manuscript
	1900-1945	A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand.	Vernon Lee	A.C. Benson	Walter Pater	Print: Book
	1850-1899	A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...	anon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...	anon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him and quoting the twaddle of some old woman, male or ...	Walter Scott	Robert Southey		Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Charles I. Evans	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Charles E. Stansfield	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	E. Dorothy Brain	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Thomas C. Elliott	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Mary Pollard	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Francis Pollard	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Mrs C. Elliott	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	Howard Smith	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 5 F E Pollard th...	George Burrow	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928 C. J. Evans in the Chair 1 Minutes of last approved	Howard Smith	Howard Smith	[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held ...	Manuscript: Notebook

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