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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Samuel Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. A Poem (1682) p.38. Edward Pordage Samuel PordageAzaria and Hushai. A PoemPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".'Jane Austen Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".'Catherine Talbot Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Wully Carruthers Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissa HarlowePrint: Book
1700-1799"Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'"William Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora THompson Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849"On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont; "'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read thos...William Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti...Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than an...Robert Southey Samuel RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti...Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is t...Anne Cust Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799" I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison."Lady Eleanor Butler Samuel RichardsonThe RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
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1850-1899		?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be...Leslie Stephen Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
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1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personage...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book


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