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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'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
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7. ...		Henry Marriage Wallis Mary WebbThe Golden ArrowPrint: 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. ...		Howard Smith Mary WebbBlessed are the MeekPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Rosamund Wallis Mary WebbPrecious BaneUnknown
'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		[unknown member of the XII Book Club] Mary WebbPrecious BanePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and most incomprehensible trash imaginable, two or three ...Matthew Lewis Mary Wells Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; o...Print: Book
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday as a true one which strikes me as an instance of more...Robert Southey Mary WollstonecraftOriginal Stories from Real LifePrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters written during a short residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction"Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters written during a short residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appel...Lady Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through...Mary Berry Mary WollstonecraftunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the wrongs of woman.'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary WollstonecraftThe Wrongs of Woman; or MariaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Posthumous works.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mary WollstonecraftPosthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of...Print: Book
1800-1849'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftMary, A FictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftWrongs of Woman; or, MariaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftElements of Morality, for the use of childrenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one on the Management of Infants, Several to Mr Johnson t...Joseph Hunter Mary WollstonecraftPosthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and MiscellaneousPrint: Book


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