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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 ...

Henry Marriage 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 ...

Victor Alexander 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 E. Robson Molière [pseud.]The MisanthropePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonThe Miser MarriedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'John Clare James BeresfordThe Miseries of Human LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Lady MorganThe MissionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Lady MorganThe Missionary: An Indian TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided FigurePrint: Book
1900-1945'Very wet. Read "Mistress of Brae Farm" by Carey.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyThe Mistress of Brae FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Mistress of Brae Farm.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyThe Mistress of Brae FarmPrint: Book
[Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes of disorders.Robert ThomasThe modern practice of physic, exhibiting the char...Print: Book
1800-1849'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was "The Modern Traveller", edited by Mr. Conder. I...Thomas Carter Josiah ConderThe Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various...Print: Book
1800-1849'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fortunes of Nigel", and several others, much to the ...Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think yo...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo ...Anne Lister Sir Walter ScottThe Monastery. A romanceUnknown
1700-1799'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this critical juncture of affairs.'Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out the only way to restore this nation to its former str...Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd that when I do read, I can only bear the chicken brot...George Gordon Lord Byron Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899"I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained ste...Leslie Stephen M.G. LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.?Charles Maturin Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book


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