| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope.... | Gertrude Savile | David Lewis | Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11. | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old... | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li... | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or ... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Killigrew | Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. | Gertrude Savile | James Shirley | The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures.... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 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'.... | 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... | 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 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | 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 | Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Each... | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | 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 | 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 Savil... | 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 | Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by ... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Vanbrugh | A Journey to London, being part of a comedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggars Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extre... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back wit... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 w... | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel... | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Cons... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the 'Universal Passion' | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. H... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Han... | Gertrude Savile | | The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc. | Gertrude Savile | 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' | Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The British Recluse'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Prude'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate". | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | [A Novell] OR [A Novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the st... | Gertrude Savile | | 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy' | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: A... | Gertrude Savile | Elijah Fenton | Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'Gil Blas'. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls. | Gertrude Savile | Philip Massinger | The Very Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in ... | Gertrude Savile | Nicholas Rowe | The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Some of Dr Clark's paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Jevon | The Devil of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Abraham Cowley | The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |