Cowper at all events studied law by the genteel method; he read it almost as little in the Temple as he had in the attorney's office, though in due course of time he was formally called to the Bar, and even managed in some way to acquire a reputation, which when he had entirely given up the profession brought him a curious offer of a readership at Lyons Inn.
"Cowper"
Goldwin Smith
It must have been largely in his own despite that he was squeezed into something called a readership of phonetics there.
"Pygmalion"
George Bernard Shaw
Good Whuffie, lots of Mansion fanac, big readership."
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
Cory Doctorow