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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	'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'	Thomas Green	Henry Fielding	The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'	Mary Shelley	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'	Mary Shelley	Tobias Smollett	Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'	Mary Shelley	Thomas Moore	Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'	John Ruskin	Richard Owen	Fossil Mammalia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Florence Macarthy'	Mary Shelley	Lady Morgan	Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Foote	The Minor, A Comedy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light did not make them better. I am beginning to get disgus...	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then came back and got to bed before ten o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Forsyth's tour'	Mary Shelley	Joseph Forsyth	Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an...	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...	Ronald Storrs	Edward Augustus Freeman	Race and Language	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...	Ronald Storrs	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book

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