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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'Monday 13th September ?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)'Gerald Moore C.E.M. JoadThrasymachusPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Robert Louis StevensonThrawn JanetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore J.J. BellThread o' ScarletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'Mary Shelley Joshua PickersgillThree Brothers, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the three brothers'Mary Shelley Joshua PickersgillThree Brothers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Francis Pollard Anthony TrollopeThree Clerks, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'Thomas Green William GilpinThree EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality" were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThree Essays on SexualityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie anonThree Fingered JackPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.'Joseph Conrad Edmund GosseThree French Moralists and the Gallantry of FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the meantime, let me say that I read you with delight, even though I wanted to exclaim, "Oh, BUT,Virginia..." on 50% of your pages.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThree GuineasPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs." Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her ...Theodora Bosanquet Virginia WoolfThree GuineasPrint: Book
1900-1945Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have panted for for years and years'.Philippa Strachey Virginia WoolfThree GuineasPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Margaret Emily Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1850-1899'[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett an...Joseph Keating Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Francis Pollard Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat
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....		Bruce Dilks Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Charles Evans Thomas Love PeacockThree Men of GothamPrint: Book


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