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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' [further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 September 1820; 'Finish Clarissa H...Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] '2 Vols of Montaigne Forsyths tour ...Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I advise you begin it as soon as you can.'Charles Darwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that ...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole wo...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming" being the right word, since I verily & indeed bel...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel RichardsonCorrespondencePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799[having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [italics] Pamela [end italics], and been told it was writt...Laetitia Pilkington Samuel RichardsonPamela, or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common novels one now meets with, like that between roast b...Louisa, Lady Stuart Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the endless variety and modulations are not in themselve...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...James Boswell Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London p...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book


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