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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'Up and to read a little;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other book...Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach h...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family of the cliffords and Kingsmils)'Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Daughter being surprized, let it fall into the Bed, an...Ann Ketelbey Robert Persons (or Parsons)[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places that were difficult', and for this reading expertise...anon [a boy] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interesting.' Alexander (Rex) Ewing Kingslake[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'Juliana Horatia Ewing Drew[unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'James Boswell John Dryden[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown


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