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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
 
1700-1799'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] E...Laetitia Pilkington Charles Wogan['Adventures of Eugenius' - veiled Autobiography]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] E...Laetitia Pilkington Charles Wogan[Psalms of David in Miltonic verse]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] E...Laetitia Pilkington Charles Wogan[letter on the subject of 'The Beggar's Opera']Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] E...Matthew Pilkington Charles Wogan[various works sent to Jonathan Swift]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Having been told by a lady that Lord Kingsborough lived nearby, and expressed enthusiasm, the lady said] 'well, Madam, though you have made a Mystery of your Name, I am ...a lady Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the Creator; as I am tax'd with numerous Quotations, wh...Laetitia Pilkington William WoolastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I wrote, in order to gain Relief, to a Prelate of [italics] Ireland [end italics], then resident in [italics] London [end italics]; I sent the letter by the Daughter of ...Robert Clayton Laetitia Pilkington[letter asking for financial assistance]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I communicated this Letter [from Colley Cibber, reproduced in the text] to Lord Chief Baron [italics] Bowes [end italics], the Hon. [italics] Arthur Hill [end italics], ...Arthur Hill, Lord Bowes Colley Cibber[letter to LP]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP received a letter from Lord Kingsborough, in response to her Dedication to him] 'I return you my Thanks for the Favour of your Dedication, which tho' I am sensible is...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia Pilkington[Dedication to her 'Memoirs']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy his letters, she sent him a poem pleading forgivene...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia Pilkington[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy his letters, she sent him a poem pleading forgivene...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. the Lord KingsboroughManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][books chosen by Mrs Marshall]Print: Book
1700-1799'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. I was greatly taken with our version of the Psalms o...James Hogg Bible [Psalms]Print: Book
1700-1799'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that I long for the second part, and want to see the char...Louisa, Lady Stuart Caroline Dawson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][history books]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took th...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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