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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" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing booksPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing sermonsPrint: Unknown
1600-1699"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed...anon Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton R PoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton John MiltonA Mask Presented at Ludlow CastlePrint: Book
1600-1699"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C14a12) ... contains handwritten corrections of both t...anon John MiltonParadise Regain'd/Samson AgonistesPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..." Lucy Hutchinson Lucretius De rerum natura
1600-1699'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex in defence of his owne Causes'Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book
1600-1699'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'Richard Rhodes [unknown][Sermons]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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