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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	" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the...	Edmund Gosse	Christopher Marlowe	Hero and Leander	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business....	Lady Eleanor Butler	Charlotte Smith	Emmeline	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Swinburne	Travels through Spain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Finished The Tatler"	Lady Eleanor Butler		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse."	Lady Eleanor Butler		Tab. de la Suisse	Unknown
	1850-1899	" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...	Edmund Gosse		Greek New Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Samuel Richardson	The Rambler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, pre...	Edmund Gosse	William Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....	Edmund Gosse		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Madame de Maintenon	Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Metastasio	Betulia Liberata	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Davila	? [ History of the French Civil Wars]	Unknown
	1700-1799	" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Davila	? [ History of the French Civil Wars]	Unknown
	1700-1799	" Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca"	Lady Eleanor Butler	Petrarch	Sonatto di Petrarca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" reading Rousseau to my Sally."	Lady Eleanor Butler	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Unknown
	1700-1799	" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"	Sarah Ponsonby		La Morte D'Abel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i...	Edmund Gosse	Christopher Marlowe	Hero and Leander	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and...	Asquith Family	Rupert Brooke	poems	Print: Book

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