√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1600-1699 | 'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I thin... | Dorothy Osborne | Marguerite de Valois | Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare a... | Dorothy Osborne | Robert Ashley | Almansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conquered Spaine, His Life and Death | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer P... | Dorothy Osborne | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | (?) Poems and Fancies | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't... | Dorothy Osborne | William Temple | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read... | Dorothy Osborne | Madeleine de Scudery | Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thoug... | Dorothy Osborne | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would k... | Dorothy Osborne | Roger Boyle | Parthenissa | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as dive... | Dorothy Osborne | Fernao Mendes Pinto | Peregrinacao | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |