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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:] 'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with some faults that would make it dangerous to some so...Catherine Talbot Daniel DefoeThe Family InstructorPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:] 'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all places of that sort here) a circulating bookseller: if...Catherine Talbot Frances BrookeThe History of Lady Julia MandevillePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:] 'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us here [...] to be sure I was unhappy enough. My mother...Catherine Talbot Epictetus  Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':] 'I shall fancy if I write thus Journal-wise, by bits and scraps,...Catherine Talbot and familyJonathan SwiftLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I entreat you to like, as I do, exceedingly. -- It is...Catherine Talbot James FordyceSermons to Young WomenPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calculated to undo all the good impressions that may have b...Catherine Talbot ?Jean ?de la ChapelleZaidePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:] 'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [italics] Athlete [end italics], no such word there, nor...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:] 'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastleshire of the charming Mrs Wilson of 104 [?years old...Catherine Talbot Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New YorkPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:] 'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of Sermons of Abp. Leighton, strongly recommended to m...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at present. There is, I think, the best exposition of the...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonWorks including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo MaggiLetters to RosaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:] 'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House." I think that is ...Catherine Talbot and familyanon The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Maga...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant At...Catherine Talbot and familyThomas LelandThe History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King ...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have been reading French books lately that represent us as a nation of infidels. The specimens we most com...Catherine Talbot 'French books'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Catherine Talbot ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Mrs Secker ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or keep it till you come? I admire many things in it ext...Catherine Talbot Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share with her, and we study the various characters of th...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe Lives of Cleopatra and OctaviaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish saints, on which I have wasted many a half hour latel...Catherine Talbot Pedro de Ribadeneira?Flos SanctorumPrint: Book


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