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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'The Jew's Tale', from Tales of a Wayside InnUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Edward] Fitzgerald writes on "The Lady of Shalott": '"Well I remember this poem, read to me, before I knew the author, at Cambridge one night in 1832 or 3, and its i...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred Tennyson'The Lady of Shalott'Print: Book
1850-1899Patrick Bronte to George Smith, his daughter Charlotte's publisher before her death in 1855, 26 March 1860:

'Though writing is to me now something of a tas...		Patrick Brontë Charlotte Brontë'The Last Sketch — Emma, a Fragment of a Story by ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I suffer so in that light?'Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf'The Leaning Tower'Print: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unkno...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unkno...Arabella Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 August 1843: 'I intended to return the book much earlier, but [...] the "Legend" was most peremptory in its demand to be rea...Thomas Westwood Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Print: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have ...Thomas Westwood Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Print: Book
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Lord of Burleigh'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]: '"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists, I have converted by my readings both my brother and...Charles Merivale Alfred Tennyson'The Lotos-Eaters'Print: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson'The Lotus Eaters'Print: Unknown
1800-1849''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth'The Mad Mother'Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Charles and Pattie StansfieldL.P. Jacks'The Magic Formula'Print: Book
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Albert Ruskin Cook unknown unknown'The Man at the Gate'Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale William Harrison'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of ...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'The Mermaid'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist Horne'The Merrie Devil of Edmonton'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it am...Virginia Woolf Kenneth Burke'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virgini...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey'Print: Book


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