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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'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ....Thomas Browne Paracelsus  Print: Book
1600-1699'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impr...Robert Boyle Garci Rodriguez de MontalvoAmadis de GaulePrint: Unknown
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery George SandysA relation of a journey begun Anno Dom. 1610. Fou...Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Michel de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Moll Neville Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery George SandysA Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Geck...Moll Neville Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Maria Ovid MetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Wat Conniston Josephus  Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Robert ParsonThe first booke of the Christian exercise, apperta...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Thomas SorocoldSupplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... W...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "lady's book of praise of a solitary life"Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "book of the preaparation to the sarament"Print: Book
1600-1699'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].Henry More AristotleMechanicksPrint: Book
1600-1699"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure ...Benjamin Tooke seditious bookPrint: unbound printed sheets
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...William Prynne Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book


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