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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'John Ruskin [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to pay his passage; and some of them were amongst the b...Leslie Stephen J.F. StephenPall Mall Gazette, articlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unl...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Pall Mall Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequent to those which Tressan has abridged & prior to Ama...Robert Southey anonPalmerin of England Print: Book
1800-1849I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is n...Elizabeth Barrett GoldoniPamelaPrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora THompson Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is t...Anne Cust Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
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1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begu...Samuel Richardson Samuel RichardsonPamelaManuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel
1800-1849'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740: 'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will be as hard to express, as the beauties of Pamela. Tho...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740: 'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriended, and born to no prospect. He is the son of an hone...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: 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 RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:] 'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) again, and already made use of some of Mr Locke's maxim...Sarah Scudamore Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741: 'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets of Pamela, part II. Where will your wonders end? [goe...Aaron Hill Samuel RichardsonPamela (two sheets from part II)Unknown
1800-1849I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is n...Elizabeth Barrett GoldoniPamela MaritataPrint: Book
1700-1799[having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [italics] Pamela [end italics], and been told it was writt...Laetitia Pilkington Samuel RichardsonPamela, or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book


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