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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Matthew ArnoldThe Forsaken MermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Mary Pollard Matthew ArnoldThe Forsaken MermanUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks John GalsworthyThe Forsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks John GalsworthyThe Forsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore John GalsworthyThe Forsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythe] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The Man of Property" reads. For that book I have a specia...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Forsythe SagaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Fortunes fo NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fortunes of Nigel", and several others, much to the ...Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' Gerald Moore Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is the first novel in which there is no Meg Merrilies. T...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.' Emma Darwin A. J. BalfourThe Foundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonThe Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's RevelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement of every art and every science, in the golden age to ...Thomas Green William Jackson of ExeterThe four ages; together with essays on various sub...Print: Book
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm William Makepeace ThackerayThe Four GeorgesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayThe Four GeorgesPrint: Book
1900-1945[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, unhopeful, consoling cluster of poems; and discovered...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns EliotThe Four QuartetsPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summarize a fairly lengthy textual discussion, e.g., in Thom...Gabriel Harvey Thomas BlundevillThe foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemansh...Print: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe Free-holder, I-LVPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'Peggy Turner The FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it about midnight. Then I put out the light opened the w...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe FreelandsPrint: Book, Pamphlet


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