| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition fr... | Anna Larpent | John Locke | Essay on human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ... | Anna Larpent | James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Galliciae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed... | Anna Larpent | Lord Monboddo | Of the origin and progress of language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a co... | Anna Larpent | | Les mille et une nuits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading .... | Anna Larpent | | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit t... | Anna Larpent | Daniel Defoe | Tour through the whole island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re... | Anna Larpent | Ramsay | a dialogue on taste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she desc... | Anna Larpent | Thomas Paine | Rights of man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversat... | Anna Larpent | Joseph Priestley | On the origin of government | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | Anna Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta... | stepson of Anna Larpent | Sutherland | Tour of Constantinople | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental... | Anna Larpent | Pierre Marivaux | Marienne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne... | Anna Larpent | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".' | Anna Larpent | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff... | Anna Larpent | William Smellie | Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or wo... | Anna Larpent | various | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ... | Anna Larpent | Hannah More | Percy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work... | Anna Larpent | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |