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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you pr...Thomas Holcroft Amelia OpieAdelaideManuscript: Play script
1600-1699'and home, my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'Tom Edwards Samuel Pepys[work on naval history]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".'Elizabeth Pepys John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1900-1945'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an e...Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe FinancierPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but m...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell you about'.Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...William Battelier Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...William Battelier [unknown]Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politique...Print: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, an...Tom Edwards [?] [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 at night; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book


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