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

	1600-1699	'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'	James Boswell	[n/a]	[Church service]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'	James Boswell	[n/a]	The North Briton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Talk and read the papers'	Mary Godwin	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.	Mary Godwin	[n/a]	Quarterly Review, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'	Mary Godwin	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in all; which is the least Bill hath been known the...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bill of mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'After priuat praier I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	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'	Mary Godwin	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge Knight of the Guarter.'	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should never be remembered by anybody) which tells how sev...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'	Mary Godwin	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'	Mary Shelley	[n/a]	Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical

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