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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'.Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe Meeting of the WatersUnknown
1850-1899[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called "The Memoir of Anzo...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Memoir of Anzonetta PetersPrint: Book
1800-1849''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.' Claire Clairmont James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of CastlehavenThe Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Ca...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gilbert BurnetThe Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and...Print: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett Siegfried SassoonThe Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting ManPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett Siegfried SassoonThe Memoirs of an Infantry OfficerPrint: Book
1700-1799'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee of the Theatres Royal of York and Hull, and was muc...James Lackington Tate WilkinsonThe memoirs of Mr Tate WilkinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'.Sydney Smith Anne Jean Marie Rene SavaryThe Memoirs of the Duke of RovigoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly romantic...'Thomas Green Pierre MathurinThe memoirs of the Duke of SullyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole party joined in, Annabella and her guests taking the ...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guestsWilliam ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole party joined in, Annabella and her guests taking the v...William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Howard Smith William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle because we have no other sources of information than ou...Albert John Martin William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Mary E. Robson William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book


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