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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'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Lytton StracheyEminent VictoriansPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'Giles Lytton Strachey Lytton StracheyLife of Cardinal ManningManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916: 'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laugh until I cried twice, once at "where he remained fo...Leonard Woolf Lytton StracheyLife of Dr ArnoldManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It was delicious to sit outside my tent writing to you. The inhabitants of the village showed perfect manners and left me in peace; not so the sheep who kept bunting int...Gertrude Bell Lytton StracheyQueen VictoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I see a quotation in "Jesting Pilate" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: "It is as though there was some inherent vice in Japanese art which made the ge...Thomas Kitching M ArlenJesting PilatePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge M LoeweA Treatise on the Phenomena of Animal MagnetismPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'.Catherine Austen M SWhat is Love?Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge M Lodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-18498/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.?Amelia Opie M R Milford Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 8 March 1826: 'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Memoires on the same subject [...] would enable me t...Walter Scott M. De PastoretLe Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648Print: Book
1700-1799Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescretion and malice...' 2. 'Mythology. The promiscuo...Frances Hamilton M. de Secondat, Baron de MontequieuSpirit of LawsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.Sydney Smith M. Guizot'Washington: par M. Guizot'Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road.
18–7–40
M Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last were read and signed.
[...]
3. The Treasure...		Bruce Dilks M. StevensMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks M. StevensMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen [?] in which we glide/ Above the billows of life's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine M. VicaryLinesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945"Mrs C. Elliott reviewed "A Book of Discovery" by N. B. [sic] Synge'C. Elliott M. B SyngeA Book of DiscoveryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... "'John Wordsworth M. G. LewisFelon, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'.M.A. Wallis M.A. Wallis[paper on Marcus Aurelius]Manuscript: Unknown
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
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 M.G. LewisAnaconda, ThePrint: Book


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