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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 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


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George Burrow Matthew ArnoldThyrsisUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook to guide us through “t...		Francis E. Pollard Matthew ArnoldThyrsisUnknown
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.
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5. R....		Roger Moore Matthew ArnoldThyrsisUnknown
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Tiger & the Lady, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, no...Antonia White Emily ColemanTigron, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passion...Celia Burrow George SandTillage of the Soil, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoTimaeusPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Plato TimaeusPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845: 'When I ask my wise self what I really do remember of that Prize-poem -- the answer is -- both of...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonTimbuctooPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Matthew Arnold told G. L. Craik that when, as a youth, he first read "Timbuctoo" he prophesied the greatness of Tennyson.'Matthew Arnold Alfred TennysonTimbuctooPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely ... TimePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Here is the much talked of book [Morley Robert's "Time and Thomas Waring"]. It has been a pain for me to read it all through, though it didn't make me slop over an...William Henry Hudson Morley RobertsTime and Thomas Waring: A Study of a ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Gertrude Caton-Thompson [n/a] [n/a]Time and TidePrint: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
1900-1945'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very good.' unknownTime is the SpurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'Ford Madox Ford Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.' Reason:' Well, I'm like that'. Spends most time ... TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper


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