| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards... | 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 Charle... | 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 Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. | Margaret 'Peggy' Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading C... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Rich... | Robert Southey | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed m... | Anne Cust | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa a... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Samuel Richardson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a... | 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 f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Samuel Richardson | | 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 alwa... | 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 be... | Harriet Grove | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne... | Anna Larpent | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Cl... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.' | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Ha... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it mu... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: 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 ha... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Mrs Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Miss Cheyne | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Freke | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Edward Young | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to... | John Marsh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Samuel Richardson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h... | Frances Burney | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but i... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not thin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "C... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s... | 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 ver... | 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 wit... | 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 | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VI of Clarissa'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison] | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'
[further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, ... | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate en... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I ad... | Charles Darwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not th... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears t... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming"... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Richardson | Correspondence | 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 Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Samuel Richardson | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Thomas Erskine | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862:
'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the... | Edward Fitzgerald | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl... | George Otto Trevelyan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ... | John Ruskin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can b... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740:
'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriende... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741:
'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets o... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela (two sheets from part II) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754:
'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary ... | 'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----' | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756:
'My good old folks --you can't think how I love... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748
[comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753:
'The delicious meal ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750:
'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me wit... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | | Samuel Richardson | 'writings' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748:
'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself... | J. Channing | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751:
'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I ... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Ramble... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751:
'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson anot... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, d... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753:
'Our days here pass too pleasantly to... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753:
'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:]
'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:]
'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give... | anon | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:]
'I have not been ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:]
'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) aga... | Sarah Scudamore | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750:
'[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for ... | '[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean' | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752:
'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading ... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753:
'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and ... | Patrick Delany | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [From ed. notes:]
'[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following mann... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volumes 1-4) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):]
'Just as I was sending this to... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 5) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (final 3 volumes) | Print: Book |