| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".' | Elizabeth Pepys | Martin le Roy de Gomberville | Polexandre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Elizabeth Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Elizabeth Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she do... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I wa... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and when came home there, I got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Davies [transl] | The history of Algiers and its slavery | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | Mustapha | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as... | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and did get my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelie... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Habington | The Queene of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth... | Elizabeth Pepys | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent p... | Elizabeth Pepys | L.G. de Cordemoy | A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | William Davenant | The siege of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper a... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of En... | Elizabeth Pepys | Edward Chamberlayne | Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I f... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Penn | The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putti... | Elizabeth Pepys | Middleton | [Middleton's memorandum] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to... | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her beca... | Elizabeth Pepys | La Calpren?de | Cassandra | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so... | Elizabeth Pepys | Silas Taylor | The Serenade, or Disappointment | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back a... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Wild | Upon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor and the noble company of bachelors dining with him, May 5th, 1669 | Print: Unknown |