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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
 
1700-1799'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the language very healthy, being very natural.'Thomas Turner John GayFablesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".'Thomas Turner Thomas SalmonA critical essay concerning marriagePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appears to me to be a very bad logician.'Thomas Turner Thomas SalmonA critical essay concerning marriagePrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Francis Lord BaconessaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christian...Sarah Scott Sarah FieldingDavid SimplePrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Michel de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Niccolo MachiavelliHistory of FlorencePrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott an account of the government in VenicePrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Thomas Randolphhis answer to Christianity not founded on argumentPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, th...Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth RoweworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, th...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhilipsworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."'Elizabeth Carter Francois-Marie VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1700-1799'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I have determined never to look into any thing he sho...Elizabeth Carter Jean Jacques RousseauworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Tobias SmolletRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Eliza Haywoodvarious novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Sarah Fieldingmany worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter French romancesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are...Elizabeth Montagu John HawkesworthAn account of voyages undertaken... for making dis...Print: Book
1700-1799'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begu...Samuel Richardson Samuel RichardsonPamelaManuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel


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