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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):] 'Just as I was sending this to the post, your fifth volume came to my hand [...] I...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volume 5)Print: Book
1700-1799[From ed. notes:] '[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following manner: -- A lady, calling herself Belfour, wrote to the...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volumes 1-4)Print: Book
1700-1799At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissa HarlowePrint: Book
1800-1849'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I advise you begin it as soon as you can.'Charles Darwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the endless variety and modulations are not in themselve...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1850-1899'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VI of Clarissa'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' [further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 September 1820; 'Finish Clarissa H...Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] '2 Vols of Montaigne Forsyths tour ...Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that ...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole wo...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book


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