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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 S. A. Reynolds in the chair. [...] 2. Minutes of last read + approved. 3. A. B. D...	Ethel C. Stevens	Agnes Gwendoline Hunt	Reminiscences	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...	Harriet Grove	Agnes Maria Bennett	The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking with me to amuse myself in the coach etc. the new pop...	John Marsh	Agnes Maria Bennett	The beggar girl and her benefactors	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'.	Elizabeth Barrett	Agnes Maria Bennett	The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883: 'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...	Sidney Biddell	Agnes Mary Frances Robinson	Emily Bronte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835: 'I have you to thank [...] for some very clever books by the Marquis de Fortia which I have rea...	Robert Browning	Agricole Fortia d'Urban	works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rho...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such a...	D'Arblay family	Alain Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...	Ellen Weeton	Alain Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12.	Gertrude Savile	Alain Rene Le Sage	The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12.	Gertrude Savile	Alain Rene Le Sage	The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Made an end of 'Gil Blas'.	Gertrude Savile	Alain Rene Le Sage	The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...	William Wordsworth	Alain Rene Le Sage	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc but I think the Trans...	Dorothy Wordsworth	Alain Rene Le Sage	Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'.	Mary Godwin	Alain Rene Lesage	Le Diable boiteux	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...	John Marsh	Alain Rene le Sage	Diable Boiteaux	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of other goods'."	William Carleton	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room with a stranger. For my amusement during this journ...	John Marsh	Alain-Rene Le Sage	The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merr...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening I stayed at home & read "Gil Blas" till it was time to go to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till nearly bed-time'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".'	John Buckley Castieau	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book

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