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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
 
1900-1945I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote and delivered before the summons was taken out. As th...Arnold Bennett Chartres BironTo the PurePrint: Book
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to de...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to de...Henry Pelham Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy his letters, she sent him a poem pleading forgivene...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. the Lord KingsboroughManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' - Byron's original text]Margaret Maingay [?] George Gordon, Lord ByronTo [George, Earl Delawarr]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'S. reads Tobit aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]TobitPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong sid...Virginia Woolf Stella BensonTobit TransplantedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

[...]

6. Celia Burrow read Th...		Reginald H. Robson Rudyard KiplingTod’s AmendmentUnknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, opening: 'How many avenues of delight are closed to the...Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasTogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved


[...]

4. The Subje...

Reginald H. Robson Victor HugoToilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)Print: Book
1900-1945'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesting it is too) that but for an occasional turn of phr...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTolstoy: A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...T. C. Elliott Hugh I'Anson FaussettTolstoy; The inner dramaPrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Thomas HughesTom BrownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Thomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesThomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ...Octavia Hill Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.' Hilary Spalding Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's college friend Monteith). On this journey he read aloud ...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Charles E. Stansfield Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'Claire Clairmont Thomas MooreTom Crib's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book


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