Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Charles Burney

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, n...Charles Burney Frances BurneyEvelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: 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 BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: 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 JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'.Charles Burney James HarrisPhilosophical ArrangementsPrint: 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 BurneyEvelinaPrint: 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 BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown

 

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