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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	'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschlyus	Prometheus Bound	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	A King and No King	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Laws of Candy, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	The Maides Tragedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Dante Alighieri	Paradiso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Baruch Spinoza	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucian	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sam. Jenner drank tea with me, and to whom in the evening I read two of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst working as a porter and warehouseman in Manchester'.	Samuel Bamford	Robert Burns	volume containing life and writings of Burns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able to make use of seasonal fluctuations in business to ...	Samuel Bamford			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Ariosto		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'	Thomas Fremantle	William Shakespeare	Measure for Measure	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'	Thomas Fremantle	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Sat and read Antony, by Lord Lytton.'	Vere Hodgson	Victor Lytton	Antony: A Record of Youth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed very early.'	John Buckley Castieau	Edgar Allan Poe	[Allan Poe]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sat by my Germans [who had like Gertrude Bell and her guides, been climbing the Meije the previous day] and Mr Scott at dinner and then early to bed after reading a gre...	Gertrude Bell		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Sat by the fire and read the Ranee of Sarawak's biography. Cannot think why she had such awful daughters.'	Vere Hodgson	Sylvia Brooke	Sylvia of Sarawak: An Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sat on deck and read Buddhist Birth Stories and slept.'	Gertrude Bell	anon	Buddhist birth stories: or Jātaka tales. The...	Print: Book

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