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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving troubl...Catherine Talbot William ChaigneauThe History of Jack ConnorPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]: 'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellanies. Is it possible you could really admire them? Is...Catherine Talbot Mary JonesMiscellanies in Prose and VersePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763: 'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however; but I hear it with infinite caution.'Catherine Talbot and familyDavid HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no modern author, but from one whom I am sure you never...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively papers in the World this winter from the mere motive of ...Catherine Talbot Richard Owen Cambridgepapers (i.e. essays)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assem...Catherine Talbot Bodmer Johann JakobNoah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In ...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read...Martin Benson Henry FieldingAmelia (volumes 1 and 2)Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read...Catherine Talbot Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with p...Catherine Talbot Duc de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so tr...Thomas Secker Plutarch MoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining an...Catherine Talbot Maximilien de Bethune de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton's edition. Is it because one's strongest partialitie...Catherine Talbot and familyAlexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago, and quite forget. It made no deep impression upon m...Catherine Talbot Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agreablesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Letters? [...] She seems to have been both a great and...Catherine Talbot Françoise d'Aubigné de MaintenonLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Pray can you tell me any history of a new paper called the Adventurer? We hope much from it, though we have se...Catherine Talbot and family The AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of moral philosophy, to find that the moral frame was not p...Catherine Talbot David FordyceElements of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751: 'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good one) upon Milton, because the author has been much ce...Catherine Talbot [N/A] RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to who...Catherine Talbot Elizabeth Singer Rowe Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to who...Catherine Talbot 'Vision'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do love Dr Harrison and the good Serjeant; and Mrs James...Catherine Talbot and family.Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book


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