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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'." Frances Burney Laurence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney Homer Print: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney ancient historyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney  Print: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney  Print: Unknown
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica...Frances Burney Elizabeth and Richard GriffithA Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Fran...Print: Book
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica...Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica...Frances Burney Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Alexander PopeWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Alexander PopeLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Nathaniel HookeRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Conyers MiddletonLife of CiceroPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Denis Diderottreatise on musicPrint: Book
1700-1799Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, not supposing she wd disgrace her parentage, but not ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyEvelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the Worl...Print: Book
1700-1799'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessi...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: " 'Good' sd. Mr. Crisp ... the name of Codger occasi...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown


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