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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
 
1900-1945Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.Virginia Woolf Augustine BirrellThings Past RedressPrint: Book
1900-1945'A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Katharine Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'To Makindye. Enjoyed reading Jowett's "Things That Matter Most".'Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lines on the Death of a Beloved Wife' 'How without rule are the decrees of God/... Thinks I To Myself'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxEdward NaresThinks-I-To-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-ComicUnknown
1600-1699'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did l...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThird Advice to a paynterManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroThird PhilippicPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...Elizabeth Marsh William JacksonThirty letters on various subjectsPrint: Book
1900-1945A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: [Sermon 1.] "SSC [?] 15 Jan 1922 & M.../ SS...James Walker Harper Fidelis, pseud.Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cotta...Print: Book
1900-1945'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and ...Eric KnightThis Above AllPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840: 'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book again -- It chaperons or is chaperoned by some Devonshir...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleyThomas a BecketPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf G. K. ChestertonThomas AquinasPrint: Book
1850-1899?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicat...Leslie Stephen James A. FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 18...Print: Book
1850-1899'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'Henry James James Anthony FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1Print: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His Friends (1888), with inserts including letters and ...anon Mrs Henry SandfordThomas Poole and His FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Tom Poole book is pleasant except that every word of Coleridge's letters revolts me, they are a mixture of gush and mawkish egotism, and what seems like humbug.'Emma Darwin Margaret E. SandfordThomas Poole and his FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Rosamund Wallis Thomas the RhymerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)Those Delightful AmericansPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von StutterheimThose English!Print: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard Kurt Von StutterheimThose English!Print: Book


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