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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
 
1800-1849'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no m...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "Clarissa Harlowe" which I have borrowed from Lambton....Harriet Martineau Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was so much reprobated.'Jane Austen Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...Jane Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I obs...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VI of Clarissa'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison]Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book


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