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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'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Oliver Wendell HolmesAutocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Oliver Wendell Holmes Print: Book
1850-1899"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying liter...Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell Holmes Print: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Harriet Martineau Oliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it h...John Buckley Castieau Oliver Wendell HolmesGuardian AngelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the classic books of criticism, as apart from their lite...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Autocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday'Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or MargaretOliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who did not know it; - & we did so grieve!'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Oliver Wendell Holmes[poem]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Chambered Nautilus, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...John J. Cooper Oliver Wendell Holmes'Latter Day Warnings'Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Mary Robson Oliver Wendell HolmesPoet at the Breakfast Table, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Reginald Robson Oliver Wendell HolmesProfessor at the Breakfast Table, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...K. Evans Oliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Charles E. Stansfield Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The Autocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her ser...Ralph Glasser Olivia ManningBalkan Trilogy, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est guarison De mes maux; J’aime mieux perdre les deux fenest...Robert Louis Stevenson Olivier BasselinA Son NezPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Woo...Winifred Agnes Moore Olwen Ward CampbellShelley and the UnromanticsPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but...Leslie Stephen Omar Khayyam Print: Book


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