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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	"Laetus cost me 2s. 6d. My wife bet me 2s. 6d. I couldn't read it aloud without crying. I thought I could. But after a page or two - I put my hand in my pocket. I said th...	Revd. Going	Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing	Laetus Sorte Mea or The Story of a Short Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Fielding	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Unknown
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Christopher Marlowe	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fletcher	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Webster	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for gra...	anon	William Wordsworth	The Excursion (excerpts)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Lady Barker	Letters from New Zealand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Tent Life in Siberia. -- Not a very new...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	George Kennan	Tent Life in Siberia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. A. Froude	Short Essays on Great Subjects	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Count Beugnot's Memoirs I have been rea...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Count Beugnot	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Frederick William Robinson	Christie's Faith	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Culture and Religion, by J. G. Sharp, i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. G. Sharp	Culture and Religion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we had our tot & went off to bed'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a look at the Papers Harry waiting for me outside until ...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	[unknown - newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a good deal'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon)	The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Lucy Hutchinson	Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry George Bohn	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]	Robert Louis Stevenson	Honore de Balzac	Contes Drolatiques	Print: Book

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