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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 to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the most affecting and heroic instance of true friendsh...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques RousseauEliosaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, are all your own and, tho? well assured that there is ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][?Night Thoughts]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on paper, where your diffidence does not stand in your way....Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsAddress to simplicityPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people always find consolation very easily for the misfortunes...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Rochefoucault[Maxims and moral reflections?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazzled my good man. He desires me to keep the letter fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WerterPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John GregoryA comparative view of the state and faculties of m...Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe travellerPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with composure that excited my own wonder. Perhaps like Bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert BurnsTo ruinPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many other instances ?What happier nature shrinks at with...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Mary WollstonecroftunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques Rousseau[?Emile]Print: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Richard Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Michael Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Stephen Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Helen Maria WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of Diana which seemed to protect me. I thought of Dryden...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Dryden[Tales from Chaucer]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe they are? It is very much the kind of reading that ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone[Sketches?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they prayed for; but he is rather delicate in his constitution...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasing associations; yet it is better to love forty or f...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] ["Parisian philosophers"]unknownPrint: Book


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