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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	John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at A. Baring's, I told them at breakfast that I dreamt...	John Wilson Croker and others at home of A. Baring		Death reports	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."	Henry James		Debats	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	‘Well … our gallant regiment … have been in it a damn sight more than ever they expected, by the Lord. We are hardened veterans, fed up to the neck, muddy to the eyes...	Ivor Bertie Gurney	Lascelles Abercrombie	Deborah	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).'	Alfred Tennyson	Montesquieu	Decadence des Romains	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	'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'	George Eliot [pseud]	Giovanni Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	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	'read the Decameroni'	Mary Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Decamerone'	Mary Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...'	Julia	Thomas Haynes Bayly	Deck Not With Gems	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1600-1699	"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr...	Samuel Pepys		Declaration of Breda	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill

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