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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 away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to th...John DrydenA defence of an essayPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to th...Richard Flecknoe [?]A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'Samuel Pepys William PennTruth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony aga...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so t...Elizabeth Pepys William HabingtonThe Queene of ArragonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so t...William Batelier William HabingtonThe Queene of ArragonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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