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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'after, I reed and praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plutarch[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late new plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plutarch[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'Percy Bysshe Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'Tom [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Mary Godwin Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'Mary Godwin Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we had our tot & went off to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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