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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I think good comedies.'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I think good comedies.'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareThe taming of the shrewPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all present'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti[poems]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business agai...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking...Elizabeth Pepys Robert WildUpon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor an...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'Polly Castieau [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening, went to Chimatomby's shop. He read the 19th chapter of the Gospel of Luke to me, and I spoke on the parable of the talents.'Chimatomby [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Luke)Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening, went to Chimatomby's shop. He read the 19th Chapter of the Gospel of Luke to me.'Patrick Beaton [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Luke), 19th chapterPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Zuegnung", "Gedichte", BalladsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson[essay on the Life of Chatterton]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud] David Masson'The Three Devils'Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix TrenchAn essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Harriet MartineauThe history of the British Empire in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays on Lord Clive And Warren HastingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Harriet MartineauThe history of England during the thirty years' pe...Print: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings we have cosy suppers in the drawing-room, with little tables in front of the fire. Sometimes we work, sometimes read and talk. The other night Mrs....Robert Dunlop Smith James Ernest Hodder-WilliamsLike English GentlemenPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings we have cosy suppers in the drawing-room, with little tables in front of the fire. Sometimes we work, sometimes read and talk. The other night Mrs....Robert Dunlop Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchOxford Book of English VersePrint: Book


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