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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
 
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'Benjamin Beanlands Thomas MooreThe Minstrel BoyUnknown
1800-1849[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very ple...Thomas Carter James BeattieThe Minstrel, or the Progress of GeniusPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the purest of mirrors, exhibiting a prospect awfully so...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattieThe minstrel; or , the progress of geniusPrint: Book
1700-1799'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye 15 Century". ... I think it one of the Pret...Joseph Hunter AnonThe Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person...Print: Book
1800-1849'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.'John Cole HerveyThe Minstry of ReconciliationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

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6. Celia Burrow read Th...
Rosamund Wallis Rudyard KiplingThe Miracle of Purun Bhagat, from The Second Jungl...Unknown
1900-1945Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea".Henry James Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945Linking a childhood memory of a great storm with a subsequent reading of Conrad's work: 'The wind blowing from this quarter is not like the south-west wind of the No...William Henry Hudson Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'By the way who wrote the "Mirrors of Downing St"? Some of the things in it are very good.' Gertrude Bell Harold BegbieThe Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Refl...Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Molly Vivian The Misadventures at MargatePrint: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Charles E. Stansfield Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Francis E. Pollard Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

George Burrow Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Rosamund Wallis Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Sylvanus A. Reynolds Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Mary Pollard Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Edgar Castle Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book



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