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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am de...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no more time upon it; it was hardly finished when I was ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu EpictetusunknownUnknown
1700-1799'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeunknownUnknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that thousands are not born to taste! "O! blind to truth,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, and met her death with the same well-grounded heroism...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[Elegy 15]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc has been lately made in the little circle of those I...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Walter Scott[Elegy 1]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap of May? if I could help it.' Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver Goldsmith[The traveller]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] unknown[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and...Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to compare me to Hudibras, "Who could not ope/ His mouth bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell through all his crooked paths. I have gone but a sho...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust me when I assure you, I don?t borrow from Harvey. The...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HarveyunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsOde occasion'd by the death of Mr ThomsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall be, that every one of my subjects, who is incapable ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the purest of mirrors, exhibiting a prospect awfully so...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattieThe minstrel; or , the progress of geniusPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make this clear by a learned quotation from M.T. Cicero?s fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Marcus Tullius CiceroFortieth orationPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I obs...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom Pope says ?Great souls there are, who touch?d with w...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][Satire VI?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bol...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have placed those pretty pictures in regular succession;...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattiePoemsPrint: Book


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