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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edro...James Herriot [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edro...David Herriot [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I wonder, miss, how you could get at them low characters!...Mary Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but indeed it?s very much above a Novel.?Anna Maria Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wished to see you very much; ? it?s a charming book in...Susanna Dobson Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.Eugenia Wynne Hernan CortesCartas de relacion [??]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.Agathe Wynne William BeckfordVathekPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.'Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisL'amour maternellePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the best of all the pieces by that author.'Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisZeliePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, well wrote and where there are some very good characte...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'This evening we read "Olympe and Theophile" (by Mde. de G.) We all cried so much there was not one of us that was capable of reading. [Eugenia says: 'Mesdames de Bombell...the Wynne family and friends, including Betsey, Eugenia and several womenStephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisOlympe et TheophilePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'Agathe Wynne [unknown]L'Ami des EnfantsPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. I thought I should die from laughing in hearing the ... Moliere [pseud.]Les Femmes SavantesPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. I thought I should die from laughing in hearing the ... Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799[Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia comments the next day, 'Le vilain homme que ced Tartuf... Moliere [pseud.]Le TartuffePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Madame du NoyerLetters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at AvignonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Delarivier ManleySecret memoirs and manners of several persons of q...Print: Book
1700-1799'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will b...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[dictionaries]Print: Book
1700-1799'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book


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