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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaWilliam Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJohn Milton Print: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made...anon Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard annotated (with 'reflective remarks') by owner, Gene...General James Wolfe Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the essays of Montaigne."Alexander Pope Michel de MontaigneessaysPrint: Book
1700-1799"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of...Alexander Pope John Wilmot Earl of RochesterpoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in the occasional sarcastic comment in pamphlets by Joh...Alexander Pope John Dennispamphlet attacking Pope's poetryPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance...Francis Douce John WhitakerHistory of ManchesterPrint: Book
1700-1799"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotate...Mary Astell Pierre BaylePensees diverses vol 1Print: Book
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, ClarissaManuscript: annotations in printed text
1700-1799"Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hill Boothby."Samuel Johnson religious workPrint: Unknown
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777; gift from the author), in whic...John Horne Tooke Joseph PriestleyDisquisitions Relating to Matter and SpiritPrint: Book
1700-1799"Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: A poem on the verso of the title page, though not entirely legible, appears to be related to the text. It takes the form of 8 lines, 4 rhyming couplets, beg...B.B. Preston Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant,La femme docteur ou la theologie tombee en quenoui...Print: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Physical Botany (179...anon Samuel SaundersA Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Ph...Print: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, as well as glosses. Edmund Law The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Queen Charlotte's responsive "extra-illustration" of text of her copy of An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian. Queen Charlotte Colley CibberAn Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian...Print: Book
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of...George Steevens Thomas Percyannotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the...
1700-1799[Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand]John Byrom William WollastonThe Religion of Nature DelineatedPrint: Book


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