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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin but some are new entries inse...James Ker Edmund LodgeThe peerage of the British Empire, as at present e...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read in afternoon and then clipped all the border for Dad. Pretty tiring work ... Bed at 12. Finished book "The Pendulum" — rather poor. Pretty tired.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Elinor MordauntThe PendulumPrint: Book
1850-1899'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'.Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthi...Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston].John Cole James [?] EdmestonThe penny magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind are not, however, allowed to remain without religiou...prisoners at Coldbath Fields [n/a]The Penny Sunday ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family? A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday. Q: Who read it? A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... The PeoplePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".'Joseph Conrad Henry NormanThe Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels a...Print: Book
1700-1799Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded...Print: Book
1700-1799News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...APrint: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Charles de Secondat, Baron MontesquieuThe Persian LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. ChestertonThe PessimistUnknown
1900-1945'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable, constructed and inhabited. It hath [sic] foundation and life.'Joseph Conrad Olive GarnettThe Petersburg TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Proclus ProclusThe Philosophical and Mathematical CommentariesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Royal Society The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840: 'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few days since. Wasn't it too bad of my dear people in W...Elizabeth Barrett William MerryThe Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sur...Print: Book


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