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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	'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formerly, i....	William Windham	Samuel Rogers	Pleasures of Memory	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'	George Eliot [pseud]	Ernest Renan	?tudes d?histoire religieuse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting. One cares little fo...	Henry Crabb Robinson	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.	Mary Godwin	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Emile, ou l'Education	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'	George Eliot [pseud]	[unknown]	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'	George Eliot [pseud]	[n/a]	[Newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the evening read the papers'	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by prayer.'	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'	Elizabeth Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	MacBeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Abbe Barruel	History of the Illuminati	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrived by the "Blue Jacket".'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'.	Mary Godwin	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Emilia Galotti	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Bell's Elocutionist	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'	Samuel Pepys	John Speed	A prospect of the most famous parts of the world	Print: Book

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