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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!'Norman Nicholson Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Kenneth GrahameGolden AgePrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Kenneth GrahameunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Margaret Dilks Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and wanted to be a smart modern thinker; and yet he aff...Samuel Johnson Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Reverend Christian Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about liberty and slavery. I mentioned to him that Macaulay ...Samuel Johnson Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St KildaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth NicholsonThe NovelManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
<...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[part of a paper on G. K. Chesterton]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[a biographical essay on André Maurois, 1939–1944]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. NicholsonThe English Attititude towwards GamesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[a paper on style]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 8th Nov. 1943 A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read. Frank Knight immediately proved w...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[on A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absences of the Secretary the minute of the last meeting were ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[an introduction to modern poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging t...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Pa...Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and [the] Dutch to come over hither, with promise of the...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties declaration against the FrenchPrint: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:] 'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le Philosophe Sans Souci." Some lines in that wickedest...Catherine Talbot King Frederick of PrussiaOeuvres du philosophe de Sans-SouciPrint: Book
1800-1849In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from Canto II of The King's Quair, by James I of Scotland.Claire Clairmont King James I of ScotlandThe King's QuairPrint: Book


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