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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[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'We [...] spent the evening in Mrs Richard...Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters  Print: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with thos...Aaron Hill John MiltonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which excellent poem I herewith return you. I am told that...Aaron Hill LeonidasUnknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738: 'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kindly surprised me. It promises me, as I turn the leav...Aaron Hill 'folio'Print: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 17 November 1751: 'I have been reading lately, with great satisfaction, the Letters of Lord Orrery on D...J. Duncombe Lord OrreryLetters on SwiftPrint: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge GrahamepigramUnknown
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...Samuel Richardson'writings'Print: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an hone...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see nothing that busies the public, except now and then a ...Aaron Hill newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goe...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamela (two sheets from part II)Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...Earl of Tyrconnel and guests including Aaron Hill 'a new play'Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...anon 'lines to the earl of Oxford'Print: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and yourself, and many thanks for the present I brought...Caroline [?Young] HerveyMeditations [?Among the Tombs]Print: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1749: 'When I was in town, I ask'd you if you had read Dr Hartley's book. You told me you had not [...] I have since read it a...Edward Young Hartley Print: Book
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method o...J[?ane] Collier Sarah FieldingThe GovernessPrint: Unknown, In proof
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by what I have read of it, I think Mr Garrick is very much...J[?ane] Collier 'play'Unknown
1700-1799[?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754: 'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary patience I ever met with; for Miss L---- and Miss B-...'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----'Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expres...Margaret Collier AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book


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