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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
 
1850-1899'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marcus read a portion of a comic Opera he was writing to...Marcus Clarke Marcus ClarkeThe Jolly BeggarsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Marcus Aurelius The Golden Book of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thank...James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMeditationsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] mainly 1804-1811; a few notes added up to 1818-1819, one note is as late as 1826 or laterSamuel Taylor Coleridge Marcus Aurelius AntoninusThe Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusPrint: Book
1700-1799'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-e...Marcus Tullius Cicero[Letters]
1700-1799'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-e...Samuel Richardson Marcus Tullius Cicero Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Marcus Tullius Cicero Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you have not yet met with it, only read, as a sample, t...Elizabeth Smith Marcus Tullius CiceroTuscular DisputationsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make this clear by a learned quotation from M.T. Cicero?s fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Marcus Tullius CiceroFortieth orationPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read between 1835-7: "transferred by me from his Bipontine edit...George Otto Trevelyan Marcus Tullius CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis OperaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's A...Elizabeth Barrett Margaret Baron-WilsonThe Life and Correspondence of M. G. LewisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...Anon Anon Margaret BrookeMy Life in SarawakPrint: Book
1600-1699'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to ...Dorothy Osborne Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle(?) Poems and FanciesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- long inscription -- Latin -- but simple -- particula...George Gordon Lord Byron Margaret de Thomasepitaph to Edmund LudlowManuscript: tombstone epitaph
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Howard Smith Margaret DilksThe GardenerManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and...		Margaret Dilks Margaret DilksMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last m...		Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks[an appreciation of Shelley’s poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Margaret DilksMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were re...		Margaret Dilks Margaret DilksMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were re...		Knox Taylor Margaret DilksMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook


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