Reading Experience Database Browse Reader Readings van Lewen Laetitia

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a...	Laetitia van Lewen	John Dryden	Alexander's Feast	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a...	Laetitia van Lewen	Alexander Pope	Sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil’s 'Pollio'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Re...	Laetitia van Lewen	[unknown]	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint...	Laetitia van Lewen	Matthew Pilkington	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and bea...	Laetitia Van Lewen	Constantia Grierson	[poems]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and bea...	Laetitia Van Lewen	Mary Barber	Poems on Several Occasions	Print: Book