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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	'But when we read the long speech of the Bishop of London, addressed to his first Diocesan Conference, we were, we confess, filled with disappointment at its lack of defi...		Bishop of London	[speech]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...	Alfred Tennyson	Black		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.'	John Cole	Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Friday May 21st. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday May 22nd. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday May 23rd. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tuesday May 25th. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wednesday May 26th. .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday May 30th. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Monday May 31st. [...] .'	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tuesday June 1st. [...] '.	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. .' ...	Claire Clairmont	Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Boccacio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London on the way [...] In the evening there was "Music wi...	Lady Charlotte Guest	Bode	Ballads from Herodotus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Boethius	De Consolatione Philosophiae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of Boetius, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising, that upon such a subject, and in such a situation, he should be [it...	Samuel Johnson	Boethius	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Boethius	Consolation of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...	Samuel Johnson	Boethius	Consolation of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...	James Lackington	Bolingbroke	unknown	Print: Book

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