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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
 
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Anna Seward Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Elizabeth Montagu Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you the worse actions of my life, I send it to you, to sh...Frances Boscawen Denis DiderotLes bijous indiscretsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she...William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound...Elizabeth Carter Dr ShuckfordDr Shuckford's ConnectionPrint: Book
1700-1799'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound...Elizabeth Carter HookerLaws of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1700-1799'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.'Elizabeth Carter Teresia Constantia PhillipsAn apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constant...Print: Book
1700-1799'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in ...Faith Gray [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read ...Frances Burney Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in ...Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fa...Frances Burney James CookVoyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She makes little progress with Cook because of her fasci...Frances Burney Marie de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Samuel JohnsonLife of WallerPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mor...Frances Burney Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book


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