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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'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John Gibson LockhartThe Life of ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849'You see I quote Sir W. Scott. I am reading in the evenings at the Athenaeum his life, and am in the sixth volume.' Charles Darwin J. G. LockhartThe Life of Sir Walter Scott bart.
1800-1849'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'William Upcott George GregoryThe Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. ChattPrint: Book
1900-1945'I stayed with Sir Alfred Lyall for a couple of days on my way north [to Middleborough]. He gave me the proofs of his life of Lord Dufferin to read which was rather inter...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. LyallThe life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
1800-1849'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish to see in what state of mind Mr Wesley died. After ha...James Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr Wesley's ancestors and relations, the life of Mr Char...James and Mary Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceit...Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter Thomas HolcroftThe life of Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Plague which raged at that season Terror and apprehens...C.M.G. [anon] The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'read in Southeys "Wesley"'John Clare Robert SoutheyThe life of WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so that I follow your advice and abandon it to any one who...Sydney Smith Robert SoutheyThe Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Method...Print: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and an [sic] painfully impressed — I might say depressed.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley, and the Rise and Progress of M...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of M...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gilbert BurnetThe Life of William BedellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of the kind though aware I have not his memory, industry...Benjamin Newton William HuttonThe life of William HuttonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you have read Mackail's Morris [...] I felt much moved, aft...Henry James J. W. MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

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1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...

Reginald H. Robson J. W. MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ...Clive Staples Lewis John William MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are very much charmed with Lord G. Paget's account of the Crimean War, a subject I dislike so much that I am surprised to like it so much...'Emma Darwin George Augustus Frederick, Lord PagetThe Light Cavalry Brigade in the CrimeaPrint: Book


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