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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Rosamund Wallis Mary WebbThe House in Dormer ForestPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a time pass before thanking you for the Gissing book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"], as I suppose it was...William Henry Hudson George GissingThe House of Cobwebs and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

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...		Rosamund Wallis Nora WalnThe House of ExilePrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedic...Joseph Conrad Violet HuntThe House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward...Arnold Bennett Edith WhartonThe House of MirthPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago, or less, I laid down the November "Scribner" [...] ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth (final instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to you [...] For I have read the February morsel of "The ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth (second instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "...Hilary Spalding Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weekly Evensong [i.e., 22-25 Oct] has been amazing this week, averaging nearly a hundred a night. It’s rather like the last chapter of the "House of Prayer" th...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't...Thomas De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read with interest Dostoevsky's "[The] House of the Dead".'Ronald Storrs Fyodor DostoyevskyThe House of the DeadPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel (almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit...Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp A.D. CrakeThe House of Walderne Print: Book
1900-1945'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glorious after Barrie, Maclaren, Crockett & Co. You se...Arnold Bennett George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902)The House with the Green ShuttersPrint: Book
1800-1849After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to be disposed of at Scarborough.John Cole The Hull AdvertiserPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Isaac Wilson in his paper of the 16th inst said that the Poll was settled at Preston and Cobbett thrown out, but it appears the contest is still continued, but without a...Robert Sharp The Hull AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.Robert Sharp The Hull Packet and Humber GazettePrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'I see by the Hull packet that the Brothers has sailed for London...'Robert Sharp n/aThe Hull Packet and Humber GazettePrint: Newspaper


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