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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'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'Mary Godwin [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1600-1699'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, and packinge of thinges'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le crimenel secret" which is a very curious and striki...Mary Godwin [unknown]Le Criminel SecretPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, suppo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, suppo...Print: Book
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choke...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked and read till dark - with great pleasure'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primus hujus Sententiae Author. Disputandi pruritus fit ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][epitaph on memorial stone]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neighbours and then reed againe ... I went againe to the ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to work and hard readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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