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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'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Angelo CorraroRome exactly described... in two curious discourse...Print: Book
1600-1699'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane t...Samuel Pepys [n/a][bill advertising cockfight]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those thing...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so h...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my conditi...Samuel Pepys John RusthworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach h...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheat...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysLove a CheateManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys J BlaeuTheatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipua...Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys Antonius SanderusFlandria IllustrataPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and ...Samuel Pepys Sir DavenantThe first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by...Print: Book
1600-1699'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.'Samuel Pepys Charles CottonScarronides, or Virgile TravestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at...Samuel Pepys John Wells[manuscript on ship building]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family of the cliffords and Kingsmils)'Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously w...Samuel Pepys John SpencerA discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vani...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]Unknown


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