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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'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Balthasar St Michael [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]MustaphaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowadays unable to read myself anything for above two li... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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