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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 if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it up...	Joseph Conrad	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	Anna of the Five Towns	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).'	William Thomas	Arnold Bennett	Anna of the Five Towns	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'	Anna Larpent	Thomas Holcroft	Anna St Ives	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & ...	Robert Southey	Thomas Holcroft	Anna St Ives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Anna St Ives'	Mary Shelley	Thomas Holcroft	Anna St Ives: a novel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'	Mary Shelley	Thomas Holcroft	Anna St Ives: a novel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespear...	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen for my subject that memorable passage in Tacitus whic...	Robert Southey	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of writing a book of moral education based on the beha...	Elizabeth Hamilton	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book

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