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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Samuel James ArnoldThe CreolePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Lady MorganThe MissionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'Frances Burney some new novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'Frances Burney William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying her Stomach ach'd, or that something stuck between h...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe spectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').'Janet Schaw Lord Kames Print: Book
1700-1799'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, instead of the expected punishment, her father gave her ...Laetitia Pilkington John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'she read much Shakespeare.'Laetitia Pilkington William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the language charming! divine harmony, beams in every l...Anna Larpent William MasonCaractacusPrint: Book
1700-1799[opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with virtuous sentiments.'Anna Larpent James ThomsonEdward and ElinoraUnknown
1700-1799'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to ...Anna Larpent John LockeEssay on human understandingPrint: Book
1700-1799[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & ha...Anna Larpent James MackintoshVindiciae GalliciaePrint: Book
1700-1799'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many errone...Anna Larpent Lord MonboddoOf the origin and progress of languagePrint: Book
1700-1799'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bis...Anna Larpent Les mille et une nuitsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading ... Anna's daily examination of the scriptures or of ...Anna Larpent [sermons]Print: Book
1700-1799'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit to Windsor Castle in 1792: "I did it", she wrote, "th...Anna Larpent Daniel DefoeTour through the whole island of Great BritainPrint: Book
1700-1799[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive remarks on the progress of those arts that seem partic...Anna Larpent Ramsaya dialogue on tastePrint: Book
1700-1799'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1780, for instance, after hearing her sister Clara re...Clara RollinHistoire anciennePrint: Book
1700-1799'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she described it, '"n self examination", and then read two c...Anna Larpent Thomas PaineRights of manPrint: Book
1700-1799'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading".'Anna Larpent Joseph PriestleyOn the origin of governmentPrint: Book


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