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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubMrs R.B. GrahamLady of the Marsh, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set ...Austen FamilyMrs S. SykesMargiana, or Widdrington TowerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'Barbara Hofland Mrs S.C. HallSketches of Irish CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I am one of her many readers [...] From her husband ...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Samuel Carter HallunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, a...Henry James Mrs W. K. CliffordThe Getting Well of DorothyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Mrs. C. Elliott Mrs. C. The Story Teller’s CraftUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30

R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” wh...		Mrs. C. Elliott Mrs. C. ElliottDomestic Life in the Fifteenth Century as seen in ...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most o...Hannah Mitchell Mrs. Henry Wood[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded works, but from casual glances into one or two of the...Arnold Bennett Mrs. Humphry WardThe Story of Bessie CottrellPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent treatment of him): 'He retained his fine appetite till he was five or six years o...Mrs. Mary Beeton[cookery book]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, whic...Elizabeth Sewell Mrs. Mary SherwoodTalesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Ass...Catherine Talbot Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririSix assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of lea...Print: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririThe Assemblies of al-HarariPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr. Colquhoun's la...Thomas Carter Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a thousand times more so. but those Institutions must al...Mary Godwin Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am well off for books, for I have a second in hand there almost more interesting, and that is Mungo Park's travels, which I never read before.'Charles Darwin Mungo ParkThe Life and Travels of Mungo Park
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elli...

Howard Smith Muriel Bowman-Smith[letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter


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