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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but it's silly wit'.Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no m...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "Clarissa Harlowe" which I have borrowed from Lambton....Harriet Martineau Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I obs...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862: 'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the summer and reading Clarissa Harlowe since; you and ...Edward Fitzgerald Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Glasgow Oct 15 1891; v.4: Milan Oct 24 1891; v.5 Rome ...George Otto Trevelyan 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: '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
1700-1799Colley 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
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:] 'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to the author of the divine Clarissa till I can meet w...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give you pleasure, the good fortune that has fallen to o...anon Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your company: I have it in those excellent works which do ho...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and instruction. I have been this day weeping over the s...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from the collection of sublime sentences which you have ...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss Howe, and execrated Lovelace with her; and a little...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750: '[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for you and all your works. I rejoice at every addition ...'[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean'Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final three volumes of Clarissa:] 'I have, Sir, with m...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (final 3 volumes)Print: Book


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