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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
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668). ...Edward Pordage John NewtonThe Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fracti...Print: Book
1900-1945'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they may bring the past when properly juxtaposed. How many...Edward Morgan Forster John AubreyThe Scandal and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there ever been a writer with more economy of phrase, or wi...Edith Sitwell John AubreyThe Scandals and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'William Ewart Gladstone Hall CaineThe ScapegoatPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, ...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe ScarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "The Scarlet Letter".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesNathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge Emma OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she de...Harriet Beer Baroness Emmuska OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent Emmusska, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote a letter home asking for statement of accounts ... Many Fr. and Russians (Baltic) arrived. Read Scarlet Pimpernel.'William Thomas Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [anon]The Scholar ArmedPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

George Burrow Matthew ArnoldThe Scholar GipsyUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Matthew ArnoldThe Scholar GipsyUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook to guide us through “t...		Francis E. Pollard Matthew ArnoldThe Scholar-GypsyUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 3 April 1852:

'The box arrived safely and I very much thank you for the contents [books] which are most kindly selected...		Charlotte Brontë Josepha GulstonThe School for FathersUnknown
1900-1945'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32.
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
3. Howard Smith spoke to us of...		Mary E. Robson Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School for ScandalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32.
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
3. Howard Smith spoke to us of...		Charles E. Stansfield Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School for ScandalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32.
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
3. Howard Smith spoke to us of...		Reginald H. Robson Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School for ScandalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32.
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
3. Howard Smith spoke to us of...		George Burrow Richard Brinsley SheridanThe School for ScandalPrint: Book


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