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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	'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...	Thomas Carlyle	[unknown]	The Sale Room	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Dissenter Tripped Up	Print: Pamphlet
	1800-1849	Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...	anon	[unknown]	[the barren fig tree]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'	Thomas Green	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of m...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	[evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Beacon	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in writinge, readinge, and prainge, as well as I Could'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe went to the church'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there'	James Boswell	[unknown]	Lives of the convicts	Print: Book, Pamphlet
	1600-1699	'after I reed and so went to supper'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	[work in Italian]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'	Richard Rhodes	[unknown]	[sermon]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'	Margaret Hoby	[unknown]	[sermon]	Print: Book

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