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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
 
1700-1799'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Italian"...'Thomas Green Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the...		Francis E. Pollard Robert BrowningThe Italian in EnglandUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elli...

George Burrow George BurrowThe Jamboree and Thoughts thereonManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".'John Frederick William Dunn Douglas SladenThe Japs at HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.' Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevThe Jew and Other StoriesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		George Burrow Anon The Jew's DaughterUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Howard Smith Hilaire BellocThe JewsPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The John BullPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marcus read a portion of a comic Opera he was writing to...Marcus Clarke Marcus ClarkeThe Jolly BeggarsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himsel...William Soutar Henri-Frédéric AmielThe Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf The Rev. John SkinnerThe Journal of a Somerset RectorPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, t...Ellen Weeton James BoswellThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with SamuelPrint: Book
1800-1849Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.Anne Lister James BoswellThe journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Mildred was a fanatical teetotaller; and took in, believe it or not, a periodical called "The Journal of Inebriety"'.Mildred Massingberd The Journal of InebrietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Finished the journal to Stella. What a bitter story!' Gertrude Bell Jonathan SwiftThe Journal to StellaPrint: Book
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'the joy / addressed to a young friend / by bernard barton'Mary Groom Bernard BartonThe Joy /addressed to a young friendUnknown
1850-1899'this eve I read the Joyful News which I enjoyed very much ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Joyful NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", which had recently been published, I had read with a d...Vera Brittain Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book


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