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

	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus] is a large inscription which reads: "Relegi mense S...	Gabriel Harvey	Desiderius Erasmus	Works	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'	Gabriel Harvey	Livy	Works	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'	Gabriel Harvey	Livy	Works	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'	Gabriel Harvey	Livy	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Hooker	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jakob Bohme	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the living, and Ellen [reader's sister] and I were sent ...	Elizabeth Sewell	William Shakespeare	works	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'I think I had read all he...	Eleanor L. Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	works	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Among many casual instanc...		Elizabeth Missing Sewell	works	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'	Thomas Green	Thomas Gray	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "Astraea Redux on the Restoration", the two first poe...	Thomas Green	John Dryden	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Peter Pindar [pseud.]	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Berkeley'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Berkeley	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Berkeley	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.'	Claire Clairmont	Thomas Paine	works	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainted, I have long been on terms of intimacy, and for wh...	Emma Roberts	Mary Russell Mitford	works	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...	Robert Southey	Lucan	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anx...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Schiller	Works	Print: Book

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