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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
 
1800-1849Friday, 14 September 1827: 'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and accomodating that every third word is a concession -- ...Walter Scott 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of NapoleonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. Th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson L. M. Hastings'Regent Street'Print: Serial / periodical, Page proofs
1800-1849'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne'Bowly groupMary Ann Browne'Relics' OR Winter's WreathPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text. Very little punctuation in transcript. Perhaps from...Carey/Maingay groupThomas Moore'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Carlyle'reminiscences'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphle...George Grote David Ricardo'reply to Mr Bosanquet'Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Revenge'
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828: 'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later than usual today [...] we have only just left the t...Elizabeth Barrett anon'Review'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...Howard R. Smith John Masefield'Reynard the Fox'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:] 'I have run over a heap of most ridiculous French books, and think with real...Catherine Talbot 'ridiculous French books'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Riflemen Form'
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.'Claire Clairmont E. T. W. Hoffmann'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809'Print: Book
1900-1945'Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's Robespierre—those times n...Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory John Morley'Robespierre: An Essay'Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Sargent Osgood'romance'Print: Book
1900-1945'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.'Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Romance'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [......Elizabeth Barrett Maria Edgeworth'Rosamond'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts was here, and went round at once to get news of Jerm...Edward Morgan Forster Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)'Rousbrugge'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I like the "Rover", better than any of your other verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Rover'
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.Bertha Pollard Matthew Arnold'Rugby Chapel'Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Francis E. Pollard Matthew Arnold'Rugby Chapel'Unknown


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