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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Wednesday, 5 April 1826: 'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth tha...Walter Scott Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor OudneyNarrative of Travels in Northern and Central Afric...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart[verses]Unknown
1800-1849?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess considerable interest for military or naval gentlemen, I fea...Charles Dickens Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon[articles]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of the hardships they had to endure the fact that he had ...Thomas Kitching Malcolm CampbellMy Greatest AdventurePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Malcolm LaingThe History of Scotland, from the Union of the Cro...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manferd KyberThe Frivolous Mouse [Die Leichtsinnige Maus]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manfred KyberThe Patented Crocodile [Das patentierte Krokodil]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuel Lacunza Y DiazThe Coming of Messiah in Glory and MajestyPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey Manutius unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Edgar Castle Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Francis E. Pollard Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Reginald H. Robson Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Unidentified members of the XII Book ClubMarc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The fo...Arnold Bennett Marcel JouhandeauClodomir l'assassinPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. whil...Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Dec...Winifred Agnes Moore Marcel ProustDu Cote de Chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les F...Arnold Bennett Marcel ProustDu Coté chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy. Last night I started on vol 2 [A...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleursPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.' ...Virginia Woolf Marcel Proust Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'. ...Virginia Woolf Marcel Proust Print: Book


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