√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime... | Frances Burney | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | ancient history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Elizabeth and Richard Griffith | A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Nathaniel Hooke | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Conyers Middleton | Life of Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Denis Diderot | treatise on music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781... | Frances Burney | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783):
'I stood, a favouring muse,... | Frances Burney | Samuel Hoole | Aurelia | |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Catherine Talbot | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Hester Chapone | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When ... | Frances Burney | Charles Burney | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasi... | Frances Burney | Thucydides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Cicero | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". S... | Frances Burney | James Cook | Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ... | Frances Burney | Marie de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Life of Waller | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron... | Frances Burney | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Samuel James Arnold | The Creole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Lady Morgan | The Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | | some new novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. C... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers h... | Frances Burney | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of... | Frances Burney | unknown | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S... | Frances Burney | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h... | Frances Burney | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put t... | Frances Burney | | Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal... | Frances Burney | Whalley | Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in... | Frances Burney | | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl... | Frances Burney | Jerningham | 'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains... | Frances Burney | Henry Harrington | Nugae Antiquae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Frances Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |