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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Galt	Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peru...	James Glass Bertram	John Galt	Sir Andrew Wyllie	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".'	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".'	Catherine Talbot	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...	Wully Carruthers	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personage...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures whic...	Maria Edgeworth	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was always habit in our family to read aloud every evening.'	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...	Harriet Grove	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was so much reprobated.'	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...	Jane Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...	Jane Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common novels one now meets with, like that between roast b...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above ...	John Ruskin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...	Jane Austen	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754: 'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary patience I ever met with; for Miss L---- and Miss B-...	'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----'	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book

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