| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Dr Shuckford | Dr Shuckford's Connection | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Hooker | Laws of ecclesiastical polity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandal... | Elizabeth Carter | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Emilie de Chatelet | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she fin... | Elizabeth Carter | Helen Maria Williams | various books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth C... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Trotter Cockburn | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Philips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."' | Elizabeth Carter | Francois-Marie Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean Jacques Rousseau | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Tobias Smollet | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Eliza Haywood | various novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Lennox | Henrietta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | many works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | | a number of novelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Jane West | A Tale of the Times and other works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance [and other novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 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 | 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 |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751:
'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only la... | Elizabeth Carter | Christopher Smart | On the Eternity of the Supreme Being | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751:
'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little ... | Elizabeth Carter | Alison Cockburn | prose writing/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 23 June 1752:
'I am heartily sorry, my dear Miss Talbot, to find by to-day's ... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Bishop of Durham | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you se... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754. |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi,... | Elizabeth Carter | Metastasio | 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754:
'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755:
'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only r... | Elizabeth Carter | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755:
'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general... | Elizabeth Carter | | Barbarossa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:
'I read that part of the Bishop of Norwich's quarto which relat... | Elizabeth Carter | | work on Stoic philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Henry Fielding | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Deane Swift | Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:]
'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical [extract] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:]
'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but you... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:]
'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu'... | Elizabeth Carter | Françoise Langlois de Motteville | Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'two pastorals' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Elizabeth Carter | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | | advertisement for work by 'Mr Hanway' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:]
'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am part... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Mr Chapone | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:]
'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agr... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'Treatise on Gaiety' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:]
'It is more from the testimony of others than from any rec... | Elizabeth Carter | Desiderius Erasmus | 'Dialogues' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:]
'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only so... | Elizabeth Carter | Catherine Macaulay | 'History' [extracts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:]
'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole foli... | Elizabeth Carter | | Lloyd's Chronicle | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:]
'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like ... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | Malincolia d'Alicino | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of ... | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Fairfax | | Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey. |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | ?Royal and Noble Authors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:]
'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought t... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Gray | ?Ode for Music | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:]
''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is w... | Elizabeth Carter | | Sermon on text 'It is well...' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | ?Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Secker | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Aikin | Essays [?on Various Subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Jacob Bryant | A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:]
'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete s... | Elizabeth Carter | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:]
'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so go... | Elizabeth Carter | | A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Travels | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:]
'Every body seems very impatient for important news from Ame... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of Independence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:]
'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Hymns | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:]
'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your cha... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Vesey | 'Ode' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:]
'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just fini... | Elizabeth Carter | James Cook | A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:]
'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'ancient account of India' | Print: Unknown |