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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to Mrs Donnelan; but the truth is, I began reading it to...Catherine Talbot Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:] 'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am particularly sorry for as it will affect you -- I imagin...Elizabeth Carter report of death of Mr ChaponePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was...Catherine Talbot George Lord LytteltonThe VisionPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the noblest storms I ever enjoyed, and truly this was not en...Catherine Talbot Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo MaggiLetters to RosaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:] 'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agree with you in lamenting that one cannot recommend t...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggipoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'the Death of Adam'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot and familyLady Mary Wortley MontaguTurkish Embassy LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:] 'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all places of that sort here) a circulating bookseller: if...Catherine Talbot Frances BrookeThe History of Lady Julia MandevillePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:] 'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us here [...] to be sure I was unhappy enough. My mother...Catherine Talbot Epictetus  Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot treatise 'sur la gaiete'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot John JortinLife of ErasmusPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763: 'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however; but I hear it with infinite caution.'Catherine Talbot and familyDavid HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter 'Treatise on Gaiety'Print: Unknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763: 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met...Elizabeth Carter 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement aga...Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any recollection of my own, that I had formed the idea that...Elizabeth Carter Desiderius Erasmus'Dialogues'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Catherine Talbot ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Mrs Secker ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book


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