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| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text |
| 1700-1799 | Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper the contempt of the clergy. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Sedley | The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | 'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine') | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works... | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his w... | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too l... | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Saviles (in a book of the Baronets lately come out), with... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Wotton | The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and His | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | William Shakespeare | Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Beckingham | The Life of Mr Richard Savage | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Denham | The Sophy OR Poems and Translations | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's. | Gertrude Savile | Martin Luther | Print: Book | ||
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. | Print: Book | |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book | |
