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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 Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Howard Smith Trials for WitchcraftUnknown
1800-1849'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all save two or three trivial misnomers regarding the chara...James Hogg John WilsonTrials of Margaret Lyndsay, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breat...Mary Augusta Ward TribunaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I a... TribunePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the railway station, we got hold of two Paris journaux --...George Grote TribunePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'bought Dodsley's "Trifles", a very entertaining book [in margin] Price 1s which Mr E. gave me to buy it with & has likewise given me the book.'Joseph Hunter Robert DodsleyTriflesPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield George du MaurierTrilbyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Mary E. Robson George du MaurierTrilbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ...R.E. Prothero OvidTristia IVPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Matthew ArnoldTristram and IseultPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

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5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Francis E. Pollard Matthew ArnoldTristram and IseultUnknown
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Lawrence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".'Thomas Tipper Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'Jane Austen Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to ent...Thomas Carlyle Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'Mary Shelley Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book


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