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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
 
1800-1849'Finish C.A. to Jane'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyValpergaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My Willi...Mary Shelley Mary Shelley[letters to PB Shelley]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that m...Leigh Hunt Mary ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 18...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mary ShelleyLast Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2....		Margaret Dilks Mary Stansfield[apologies for absence from a meeting of the XII B...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records of Immature Genius"'. Felicia Hemans Mary Tigheearly poemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...'Julia Mary TigheSonnet Addressed To My MotherPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Ah ['Oh!' in original] do not quite your friend forget/...' [4 lines: last 4 lines of 48-line text]'Carey/Maingay groupMary TigheOn Receiving a Branch of MezereonPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Muriel Stevens Mary TrevelyanFrom the Ends of the EarthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces, it might have influenced me less, but I remained i...Vera Brittain Mary WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1900-1945'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Robert Elsmere".'Vera Brittain Mary WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, a...Hilary Spalding Mary WebbHouse in Dormer Forest, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, a...Hilary Spalding Mary WebbPrecious BanePrint: Book
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warMary Webb[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbHawthorn BerryUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbSnowdrop TimeUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbThe Poplar TreeUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbThe Neighbour’s ChildrenUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Rosamund Wallis Mary WebbThe House in Dormer ForestPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Ethel C. Stevens Mary WebbThe Golden ArrowPrint: BookUnknown


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