| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Edward Young | Night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shakespeare | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fa... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [Elegy 15] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Walter Scott | [Elegy 1] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | unknown | [Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust m... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Harvey | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | The minstrel; or , the progress of genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make thi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Fortieth oration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [Satire VI?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almos... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Eliosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [?Night Thoughts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Address to simplicity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people alw... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Rochefoucault | [Maxims and moral reflections?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last sectio... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Gregory | A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with c... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | To ruin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Mary Wollstonecroft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [?Emile] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Helen Maria Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Dryden | [Tales from Chaucer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone | [Sketches?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they praye... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who e... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read th... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | [Life and letters of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Cowper | The task | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Campbell | Pleasures of hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure ple... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | Life and letters of William Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | ["Parisian philosophers"] | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | Paradise lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not gi... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | Thomas Gray | Elegy written in a country churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the excellence of the devotions in the little volume you were so good as to send me, there cannot be two opinions,... | Anne Grant | | [volume of religious meditations] | Print: Book |