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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 after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the...Matthew Wren Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so made the boy read to me' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, a...Deborah Willet Samuel Pepys[note]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they ...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter with corrections by Matthew Wren]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture ...Elizabeth Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.'John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and ...John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all t...Elizabeth Pepys L.G. de CordemoyA philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conf...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'William Hewer [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys William DavenantThe siege of RhodesPrint: Book


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