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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	Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.	George Otto Trevelyan	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.	William Ewart Gladstone	Henry Fynes Clinton	Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his arg...	Gertrude Savile	George Stanhope	Twelve Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.	Gertrude Savile	Aphra Behn	All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.	Gertrude Savile	Aphra Behn	All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's.	Gertrude Savile	George Stanhope	Twelve Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a great poet as we acknowledge Spenser to be so, & do...	Elizabeth Barrett	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Revolt of Islam	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay ...	Gertrude Savile	John Dryden	All for Love	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production	I.G.	Robert Southey	Life of Wesley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Leslie Stephen	Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	read Tacitus and le Testament'	Mary Shelley	August H. J. Lafontaine	Das Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read the 'Universal Passion'	Gertrude Savile	Edward Young	The Universal Passion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.	Joseph Hunter	Elizabeth Inchbald	Nature and Art	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.	Elizabeth Barrett		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.	Elizabeth Barrett	Horne		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruous as can be well concieved. He still persuades his...	Robert Sharp	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Read the News	John Yeoman			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele	Anne Lister	Richard Polwhele	Sermons: a new volume	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random	John Yeoman	Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random	Unknown
	1800-1849	Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient ...	John Clare		The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical

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