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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses, Mr Richardson has been so good as to shew them to m...Catherine Talbot Hester MulsoversesUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, did you ever call Pigmalion a fool, for making an ima...Catherine Talbot Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen them? They are incomparable. Truth, virtue, simplic...Catherine Talbot Bernard le Bovier de FontenellePlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Catherine Talbot 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Bishop of Norwich 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751: 'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would you be if you had been turning over with me five gr...Catherine Talbot Bernard de MontfauconFrench AntiquitiesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask you whether I had dreamt it, or whether it was possi...Catherine Talbot Anthony Ashley CooperCharacterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [v...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to n...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754: 'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good wishes of the season, though to any of the fine folks...Catherine Talbot The World, No. CIVPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 January 1753: 'I like the Adventurers; we all like them exceedingly [...] They do not abound in hard words, they are varied wi...Catherine Talbot and family The AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on the whole, and yet it so far amuses me that I am glad...Catherine Talbot The IdlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon ...Catherine Talbot and familyMarie de Rabutin-Chantal de SevigneLetters (vol. 7)Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon ...Catherine Talbot and familySarah FieldingLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Rambler' essay: 'Fie upon you! indeed I see no harm in ...Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753: 'Our days here pass too pleasantly to want any foreign enlivening [...] country scenes, c...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] ...		Catherine Winkworth Christian Charles Josias BunsenHippolytus and His Age (vols 1-3)Print: Book


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