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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'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale James Grainger[unknown poem praising Young]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Miss Cooper Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavouring to make the World believe it [italics] hers [end i...Hester Lynch Thrale Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireThe Sylph: a NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscene to be borne, otherwise very...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedingly Ingenious: but so obscene I will not pollute my...Hester Lynch Thrale Andrew Erskine[a poem on a Geranium]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscription on a Stone he saw - which was set up as he then fo...Cornelius Ford [an inscription]Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Frances Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas BurnetTelluris Theoria SacraPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale William WhistonAstronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model - it shall be "L'Homme Singulier".'Hester Lynch Thrale Philippe Nericault DestouchesL'Homme SingulierPrint: Book
1700-1799'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns ... [an epigram]Unknown
1700-1799'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Quack Med'cines to prevent growing fat, or perhaps to r...Hester Lynch Thrale [ladies memorandum books]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & even now perhaps in popish Countries, mistaken for De...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book
1700-1799'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest English Verses I ever read, but as they will be published ...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a provencale ballad]Manuscript: Unknown


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