| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. | Frances Hamilton | R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) | The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition.
'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | A Letter to Earl Stanhope | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes.
'Vol 2 Agamemnon.
N.B. A ... | Frances Hamilton | Aeschylus | The Tragedies of Aeschylus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France:
'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book I have a high opinion of' | Frances Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan.
N.B. a rebellious book.' | Frances Hamilton | D O'Bryan | The Government of the Country | Print: Book |