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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[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in his garden:] 'This impertinent episode of the rook...Thomas Edwards  Print: 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[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 RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:] 'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and admired him as a poet, yet I must own I never had an...Thomas Edwards Alexander Pope'Essays'Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:] 'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to the author of the divine Clarissa till I can meet w...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:] 'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming Odes of Miss Mulso's, and admire them more and more...Thomas Edwards Hester Mulso'Odes'Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:] 'I have not been a fort'n-night [sic] at home. The contrast between m...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last piece, called his Voyage to Lisbon. That a man, who ...Thomas Edwards Henry FieldingVoyage to LisbonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a syllable of Mr Duncombe's performance, till Miss Sal...Thomas Edwards John DuncombeThe FeminiadPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund Spenser?The Works of Mr Edmund SpenserPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give you pleasure, the good fortune that has fallen to o...anon Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:] 'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'.Thomas Edwards Hester MulsosonnetUnknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Spenser; but to what purpose except my own private sat...Thomas Edwards Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: it was a most puffy preface to proposals published b...Thomas Edwards Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce'Print: Unknown
1900-1945[Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.'Hilary Spalding Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1900-1945[Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to appreciate the realities of freedom, happiness and ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'Lady Caroline Lamb Edmund Burke[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbeTale II, 'The Parting Hour'Unknown


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