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

	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.'	Harriet Martineau		Anti-slavery documents	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944 F. E. Pollard in the chair. 1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed. [...]	Kenneth F. Nicholson	G. K. Chesterton	Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have never seen so good an illustration of the scientific u...	Arnold Bennett	H. G. Wells	Anticipations	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'S. reads Antient Metaphysics'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Antient Metaphysics; or, the Science of Universals	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.	George Eliot [pseud.]	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'	Mary Shelley	Vittorio Alfieri	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the Antigone'	Mary Shelley	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]' [letter to Maria Gisborne]	Percy Shelley	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -- an emotion different from any other.' ...	Virginia Woolf	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.'	Hilary Spalding	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.'	Hilary Spalding	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'	Mary Godwin	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'	Mary Godwin	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'	Mary Godwin	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Homer and the Antiquary'	Mary Shelley	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was written by a man of the name of Greenfield, once a p...	Mrs [-]	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into insi...	Magdalene Erskine	Bernard de Montfaucon	Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grec...	John Drummond Erskine	Bernard de Montfaucon	Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gometius Pereira	Antoniana margarita, opus nempe physicis medicis	Print: Book

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