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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "Sept. 21 1914 Aloud to C[aroline]"; "Dec 30 1920 with...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyThe rise of the Dutch republic: a historyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'John Luther Hawkins John Luther Hawkins[paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Capn Boyds book on seamanship, there is a great deal to be picked up from it, but of course some things there are, in which a variety of opinions exist, especial...Albert Battiscombe John MacNeill Boyd[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixture of religious feeling with Science. Its title is ...Sarah Harriet Burney John Mason GoodBook of Nature, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway John Maynard Keynes Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938: 'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summed up the situation [i.e. the Munich Crisis] in a ver...John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynesarticle on the Munich CrisisUnknown
1900-1945Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I could follow, about Cambridge youth; their philosop...John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes'Memoir Club' paperManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carr...William Soutar John Middleton MurrayKeats and ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & tease...Virginia Woolf John Middleton MurryGod: an Introduction to the Science of MetabiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf John Middleton MurryunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubJohn Millington SyngeTinker's Wedding, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubJohn Millington SyngePlayboy of the Western World, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....'John Monk SaundersA Yank at OxfordPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of the City of God" [goes on to transcribe extracts and a...Edward Morgan Forster John Neville FiggisThe Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of Go...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford John Peale BishopAct of DarknessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.'Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and Studies in GreeceManuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs
1850-1899'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles and Studies" before its original publication in 1876...Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and StudiesManuscript: proofs
1800-1849'I commenced a work by Professor Nichol on Astronomy, for thou must know that we (A.M.B., Jane, and I), feeling the unutterable darkness which now reigns in our minds a...Eliza Ellis John Pringle Nichol[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'Mr Estlin has sent me his sermon — a most superb copy — tho not I have not the one he sent — for Johnsons man could not ...Robert Southey John Prior EstlinThe Nature and Causes of Atheism, Pointed Out in a...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes John Richard Green Print: Book


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