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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Thomas Secker

 

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Plutarch  : Morals

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so translation. They seem to me the most amiable, the most lively, and the least dry of any moral book, but 'tis indeed very little I have heard of them. I am deep in the Memoires [sic] of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with pleasure, as he seems to have an honest, brave, and worthy heart [...] I am reading many other books, but will not trouble you with my thoughts of them till I have read them through.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Secker      Print: Book

  

Richard Hurd : Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel Considered as a Part of an English Gentleman’s Education

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace very well, and a silly harmless story book called Maria, which serves to entertain myself at minutes when I am fit for nothing else.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Secker      Print: Unknown

 

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