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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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...Thomas Erskine Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862: 'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the summer and reading Clarissa Harlowe since; you and ...Edward Fitzgerald Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Glasgow Oct 15 1891; v.4: Milan Oct 24 1891; v.5 Rome ...George Otto Trevelyan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man said he could not be content to sail gently down th...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above ...John Ruskin Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
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1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...Samuel Richardson'writings'Print: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an hone...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goe...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamela (two sheets from part II)Unknown
1700-1799[?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754: 'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary patience I ever met with; for Miss L---- and Miss B-...'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----'Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken w...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748 [comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest instalment of Clarissa, before remarking]: 'I hav...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volume 3)Print: Book
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753: 'The delicious meal I made of Miss Byron on Sunday last, has given me an...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown


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