Abigail Read (page 8)

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

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

Man reading to Girl Ruth Addinall

18th-Century British Painting of a Woman Reading Anonymous

The Fabian Society Report, 1886-7 Walter Crane

Woman Reading, 1769 Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie

Woman Reading, 1769 Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié

Woman Reading, c.1662 Gerard Terborch

Mary Magdalene Reading Adriaen Isenbrant

Jacob complains to Laban that he gave him Leah instead of Rachel as his wife Daniël van den Bremden

Scilla Lilio-hyacinthus, Scilla fausse-jacinthe, Read hyacinth Pierre Joseph Redouté

A Fireside Read, c.1825 William Mulready

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

Girl Reading Charles Edward Perugini

A Quiet Read by the Cliff Path Arthur Hopkins

Interrupted Reading, c.1870 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Children Reading Beside a Country Lane Myles Birket Foster

Woman Reading in a Garden Marie Spartali Stillman

Girls Reading Eugene Carriere

The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1849 David Roberts

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

Family Reading of The Betrothed, 1876 Anonymous

The Reader Jean Baptiste Greuze

Study of a Girl's Head, 1863 Simeon Solomon

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

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

Marion Fay: A Novel, She Read the Letter a Dozen of Times, Pressing It to Her Bosom Anonymous

Reading a Book, c.1872 James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Tennyson Reading 'Maud', 1855 Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti

Illustration of Woman Reading in Bed Anonymous

Study of a Countryman Reading William Henry Hunt

Woman reading, 1888 Lovis (1858-1925) Corinth

Head of a Girl, c.1896 John William Waterhouse

Girl Reading in Armchair, 2009 Ruth Addinall