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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to ...Edmund Burke Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to ...Sir Joshua Reynolds Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance, and the public were delighted with it.'Edmund Burke Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Arnold Joselin Frances BurneyMy Streatham VisitPrint: Book
1850-189917 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. he had not re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Frances Burney D'ArblayMemoirs of Dr BurneyPrint: Book
1800-184917 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not re...Charlotte Bertie Frances Burney D'ArblayMemoirs of Dr BurneyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842: 'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arblay's Diary and Letters] interesting & very interes...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Burney D'ArblayDiary and Letters (Volume 5)Print: Book
1800-1849

[Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ever read.'

Fanny Allen Frances D'ArblayThe WandererPrint: Book
1850-1899'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W...Harriet Martineau Frances Edgeworth ?[possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Sel...Print: Book
1700-1799'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy'. [Mrs Thrale then tells of Mrs Greville's son's de...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances GrevilleOde to IndifferencePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not very agreeable things'.Antonia White Frances Grigson[letters to Tom Hopkinson]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'May - Autobiography'Sarah Good Frances Hodgson-BurnettThe One I Knew the Best of AllPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'Mary Shelley Frances HolcroftFortitude and Frailty: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius'Mary Shelley Frances HolcroftFortitude and Frailty: a novel'Print: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Frances JacsonRhodaPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eag...Joanna Baillie Frances KembleFrancis the FirstPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just ...Stuart Wood Frances KingsleyCharles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Frances ParkWalls Against the WindPrint: Book
1850-1899'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculcates a future state of retribution; and what it teac...James Boswell Frances SheridanMemoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculcates a future state of retribution; and what it teac...Samuel Johnson Frances SheridanMemoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, ThePrint: Book


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