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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
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Reginald H. Robson Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Victor Alexander Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Ethel C. Stevens Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice through the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Howard Smith Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Sylvie and BrunoPrint: Book
1900-1945'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' "Jewish Problem", and by making a conscious effort t...Geoffrey Gorer Lewis GoldingsJewish ProblemPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf Lewis MelvilleThe Thackeray CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Lewis Morris Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily "course", to employ his own far too much over-work...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonSunset SongPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness abo...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonGrey GranitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'Joseph Conrad Liam O'FlahertyThe Cow's DeathPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia a...Winifred Holtby Liddell HartT.E. Lawrence in Arabia and AfterUnknown
1800-1849W. E. Gladstone to John Murray (from January 1843), on Lieutenant Eyre, Military Operations in Cabool [sic for Kabul]: 'I have read it with great pain and shame, whi...W. E. Gladstone Lieutenant EyreMilitary Operations in CaboolPrint: Book
1900-1945'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying to me - that it was I who was guilty of severing the...Ralph Glasser Lilian Glasser[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi...Lilian Goadby Lilian Goadby[account of life of William Morris]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...Lilian Goadby Lilian Goadby[paper on Jane Austen]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goad...Lilian Goadby Lillian Goadby[explanation of Jabberwock etymology] from Through...Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?] on Burns as son...Lilian Goadby Lillian Goadby[paper on Burns's life]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'April. Sustained interest'Sarah Good Lily DougallBeggars All: A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a c...William Wordsworth Lindley MurrayIntroduction to the English ReaderPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Lindley MurrayMurray's GrammarPrint: Book


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