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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
 
1600-1699'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second par...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not f...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: Book
1500-1599'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and after I had dined I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and after I had praied I went to readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper'Margaret Hoby Bond[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'Samuel Pepys William PennTruth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony aga...Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of England", which promises well and is worth reading; an...Elizabeth Pepys Edward ChamberlayneAngliae Notitia; or The present state of England: ...Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon'Margaret Hoby George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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