√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, n... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Cr... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: ... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | [Plan for his dictionary] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'. | Charles Burney | James Harris | Philosophical Arrangements | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |