| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | french romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | 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... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | various works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div... | Catherine Talbot | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751:
'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good o... | Catherine Talbot | [N/A] | Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751:
'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age... | Catherine Talbot | Fielding | [?The] Patriot | Print: Book |
| 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 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751:
'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on t... | Catherine Talbot | | The Idler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751:
'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly... | Catherine Talbot | Duc de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know... | Catherine Talbot | Maximilien de Bethune de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751:
'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard de Montfaucon | French Antiquities | 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, 23 December 1751:
'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Catherine Talbot | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses,... | Catherine Talbot | Hester Mulso | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Arlequin' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Princess Mesirida' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips | An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | William Chaigneau | The History of Jack Connor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]:
'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellan... | Catherine Talbot | Mary Jones | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752:
'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Le... | Catherine Talbot | Françoise d'Aubigné de Maintenon | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Vision' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754:
'"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago,... | Catherine Talbot | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agreables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively pape... | Catherine Talbot | Richard Owen Cambridge | papers (i.e. essays) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754:
'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of mora... | Catherine Talbot | David Fordyce | Elements of Moral Philosophy | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask ... | Catherine Talbot | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [volume 1]. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754:
'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good w... | Catherine Talbot | | The World, No. CIV | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755:
'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha... | Catherine Talbot | | 'volumes of Stoic philosophy' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'There is a whole shoal of new books. The Centaur, well wo... | Catherine Talbot | | Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral... | Catherine Talbot | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:]
'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's... | Catherine Talbot | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:]
'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:]
'I have looked in Dodsley, to s... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Dodsley | The Ladies' Memorandum Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Pierre de Marivaux | Le Spectateur Francois | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:]
'I have run over a heap ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'ridiculous French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:]
'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the Fr... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French plays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:]
'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are ... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | Ode | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | The Phoenician Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Orestes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Hecuba | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:]
'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to g... | Catherine Talbot | Roger Boyle | Parthenissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:]
'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le ... | Catherine Talbot | King Frederick of Prussia | Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:]
'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with... | Catherine Talbot | Daniel Defoe | The Family Instructor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather ... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | Letters (as 'Orinda') | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Catherine Talbot | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:]
'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to M... | Catherine Talbot | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! ... | Catherine Talbot | George Lord Lyttelton | The Vision | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the nobl... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | Letters to Rosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'the Death of Adam' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:]
'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all plac... | Catherine Talbot | Frances Brooke | The History of Lady Julia Mandeville | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:]
'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us h... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | | treatise 'sur la gaiete' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | John Jortin | Life of Erasmus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en... | Catherine Talbot | ?Elizabeth ?Carter | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have been reading French books lately that represent u... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or k... | Catherine Talbot | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:]
'I brought with me Hurd's Dial... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Kimber | Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:]
'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord He... | Catherine Talbot | Horace Walpole | Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:]
'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:]
'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at pr... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Works including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette | ?Peruvian Tales (vol 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | Charles Morrell | The Tales of the Genii | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calcula... | Catherine Talbot | ?Jean ?de la Chapelle | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I... | Catherine Talbot | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:]
'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish s... | Catherine Talbot | Pedro de Ribadeneira | ?Flos Sanctorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:]
'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastl... | Catherine Talbot | | Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New York | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:]
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, th... | Catherine Talbot | Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri | Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that... | Catherine Talbot | Bodmer Johann Jakob | Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In twelve books. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède | Pharamond; or the History of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Rene Aubert de Vertot | Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem | Print: Book |