the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White : Celestina

'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very small. We however at the library (consisting of about 400 volumes) got Mrs Smiths [sic] novel of "Celestina" & "Humphrey Clinker" to amuse us.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White     Print: Book

John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White : The expedition of Humphrey Clinker

'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very small. We however at the library (consisting of about 400 volumes) got Mrs Smiths [sic] novel of "Celestina" & "Humphrey Clinker" to amuse us.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White     Print: Book

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