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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750: 'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me with [...] I have not patience, till I know what's beco...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748: 'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself very truly affected with them. I had attended the l...J. Channing Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751: 'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I had no idea when I sent it to you that it was worth ...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Rambler' essay: 'Fie upon you! indeed I see no harm in ...Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751: 'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson another reading, and confess myself to have been too muc...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, did you ever call Pigmalion a fool, for making an ima...Catherine Talbot Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753: 'Our days here pass too pleasantly to want any foreign enlivening [...] country scenes, c...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753: 'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes of his most charming work, and I heartily wish, for...Elizabeth Carter Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:] 'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to the author of the divine Clarissa till I can meet w...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give you pleasure, the good fortune that has fallen to o...anon Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:] 'I have not been a fort'n-night [sic] at home. The contrast between m...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your company: I have it in those excellent works which do ho...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your company: I have it in those excellent works which do ho...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and instruction. I have been this day weeping over the s...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:] 'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) again, and already made use of some of Mr Locke's maxim...Sarah Scudamore Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from the collection of sublime sentences which you have ...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss Howe, and execrated Lovelace with her; and a little...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750: '[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for you and all your works. I rejoice at every addition ...'[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean'Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752: 'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading some of your last scenes [...] I have made some litt...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonManuscript: Unknown


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