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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should read Clarissa to them, which gave me a fourth time t...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for some good account of those I knew and esteemed at Lisb...Margaret Collier newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken w...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748 [comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest instalment of Clarissa, before remarking]: 'I hav...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volume 3)Print: Book
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753: 'The delicious meal I made of Miss Byron on Sunday last, has given me an...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750: 'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me with [...] I have not patience, till I know what's beco...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748: 'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself very truly affected with them. I had attended the l...J. Channing Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751: 'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good one) upon Milton, because the author has been much ce...Catherine Talbot [N/A] RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1751: 'I have a [...] curiosity to find out the author of a book Mrs Underdown has lately been reading to me, with wh...Mrs Underdown Directions for the Employment of TimePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age [...] Have you read Fielding's excellent, incompara...Catherine Talbot Fielding[?The] PatriotPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751: 'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I had no idea when I sent it to you that it was worth ...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Rambler' essay: 'Fie upon you! indeed I see no harm in ...Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751: 'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson another reading, and confess myself to have been too muc...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on the whole, and yet it so far amuses me that I am glad...Catherine Talbot The IdlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so tr...Thomas Secker Plutarch MoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with p...Catherine Talbot Duc de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751: 'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only late publication I have met with is Mr Smart's Prize V...Elizabeth Carter Christopher SmartOn the Eternity of the Supreme BeingPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton's edition. Is it because one's strongest partialitie...Catherine Talbot and familyAlexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining an...Catherine Talbot Maximilien de Bethune de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book


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