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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
 
1850-1899'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes...Thomas Burke Kirke White Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Le Livre — i.e. Joseph Knight — Has reviewed my books aright.'Robert Louis Stevenson Knight Joseph[Review in Le Livre]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[a defence of vice]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[the historical background to Samuel Johnson and h...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Roger Moore Knox TaylorLangdale, Easter 1942Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942 Arnold Joselin in the Chair
2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] took it upo...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[on the Age of Pericles]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[an outline of the plot of The Admirable Crichton]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von StutterheimThose English!Print: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von StutterheimThose English!Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.] Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'...Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'. ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.' ...Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of...William Henry Hudson L. H. de V. ShawSnipe and WoodcockPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. Th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson L. M. Hastings'Regent Street'Print: Serial / periodical, Page proofs
1900-1945"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: ...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle L. Margery BazettAfter-Death CommunicationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...L. T. MeadeBy Mutual ConsentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Where is the heart that is not bow'd /...' 'L.E.L'Mary Groom L.E. LandonLove's SlavesUnknown


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