Abigail Read (page 8)

Louis VIII burning the Albigensian books in 1226 French School

Illustration of Woman Reading in Bed Anonymous

A Fireside Read, c.1825 William Mulready

1920s 1930s Two Girls Sitting Side By Side In Chair Reading Book Anonymous

Interrupted Reading, c.1870 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Poemi di Giorgio Lord Byron, recati in italiano da Giuseppe Nicolini. The Bride of Abydos, Parisina, The Corsair, Lara Anonymous

Young woman reading her correspondence in the bedroom Louis Rolland Trinquesse

Girl Reading Charles Edward Perugini

Heloise and Abelard in their study Jean Michel the Younger Moreau (after)

Woman Reading, 1769 Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié

Portrait of a Girl Reading, 1842 Thomas Sully

Mary Magdalene reading Cornelis Bloemaert II

Reading the Letter Marguerite Gerard

Woman in an Arab Blouse Reading, 1919 Pierre Auguste Renoir

A Sybil reading facing right, ca. 1517-18 Ugo da Carpi

Of impacient folys that wyll nat abyde correccion (after) German School

Torquato Tasso reading Liberated Jerusalem to Eleonora d'Este, 1865 Domenico Morelli

1950s Portrait Mother Two Daughters And Son Reading Book Together Anonymous

Reading Alexander Johnston

The Reading Corner, 1999 Carolyn Hubbard-Ford

Man reading to Girl Ruth Addinall

The Reader Crowned with Flowers, or Virgil's Muse, 1845 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Study of a Countryman Reading William Henry Hunt

The Amboy Dukes pictured at Reading Abbey Ruins, Berkshire, in 1968. Staff

A Boy Reading, 1758 Per Krafft

Man Reading, 1998 Ruth Addinall

Illustration of British Citizens Reading Dispatches on the Boer War Anonymous

Woman Reading, c.1662 Gerard Terborch

The White-Haired Reader Maria Blanchard

Woman reading, 1888 Lovis (1858-1925) Corinth

The virgin Mary is reading a book (The Solly Madonna), c. 1502-1503 Anonymous

Alfred the Great learning to read Frances Brundage

A Quiet Read Alfred Augustus Glendening II

The Sentimental-Novel Reader George Cruikshank

A Girl reading a letter by Candlelight, with a Young Man peering over her shoulder, c.1760-2 Joseph Wright of Derby

Girls Reading Eugene Carriere