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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminst...Elizabeth Carter 'two pastorals'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter 'Treatise on Gaiety'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement aga...Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:] 'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only some extracts from it, which seemed to be writ with st...Elizabeth Carter Catherine Macaulay'History' [extracts]Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter Plato RepublicPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter [novels]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:] 'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that the women there were remarkably chaste, unless the ...Elizabeth Carter 'ancient account of India'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:] 'My sister and all her family are with me at present, among the rest the little prattling boy who breakfasted ...anon  Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace Walpole?Royal and Noble AuthorsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:] 'Every body seems very impatient for important news from America; for my own part, I have so little hope of any ...Elizabeth Carter report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of In...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:] 'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your charming Ode, which breathes all the spirit of that wil...Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Vesey'Ode'Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:] 'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just finished them. The description of the savage inhabitan...Elizabeth Carter James CookA Voyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:] 'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They are all excellent, but there are some passages amaz...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymnsUnknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:] 'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought there were some fine stanzas in it: but in general it...Elizabeth Carter Thomas Gray?Ode for MusicPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:] 'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like the Malincolia d'Alcindo, which is beautiful in the ...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggiMalincolia d'AlicinoPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete system of French morality that ever disgraced the Eng...Elizabeth Carter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:] ''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is well[end italics], &c. I have read it and thought it ...Elizabeth Carter Sermon on text 'It is well...'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:] 'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so good as to tell me who is the writer of a Letter to a ...Elizabeth Carter A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Tr...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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