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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'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I wonder, miss, how you could get at them low characters!...Mary Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but indeed it?s very much above a Novel.?Anna Maria Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wished to see you very much; ? it?s a charming book in...Susanna Dobson Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842: 'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a [italics]consc...Elizabeth Barrett Frances BurneyDiary and Letters (Volume 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842: 'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Diary." Dr Johnson appears to the greatest possible ...Mary Russell Mitford Frances BurneyDiary and Letters (Volume 1)Print: Book
1700-1799'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end underlining], of such dear delicious people? - I have ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances BurneyCamilla; or, a Picture of YouthPrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Frances Burney Print: Book
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be...Charles Burney Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be...Samuel Johnson Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was by his second Daughter Fanny, who certainly must be...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Frances Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this Mode of Life lasts, her Book will be of Value, as the...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her Characters are nicer discriminated, and less prominen...Samuel Johnson Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 26 May 1828: 'I walkd down to call with [Samuel] Rogers on Mrs. D'Arblay. She shewd me some notes which she was making about her novels which she induced me to...Walter Scott Frances Burneynotes 'about her novels'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read...Mary Shelley Frances Burney'Memoirs of Dr Burney'Print: Book
1700-1799'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was...Hester Thrale Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was...Samuel Johnson Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book


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