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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Margaret Dilks William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Muriel Stevens William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Charles E. Stansfield William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Reginald H. Robson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Bruce Dilks William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Also going through Vanity Fair again. It seems another world.'Vere Hodgson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 14 August 1848:

'I regard Mr Thackeray as the first of modern masters, and as the legitimate high priest of Truth [...] H...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair (concluding instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, w...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed s...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human Wishes, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed s...David Garrick Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human Wishes, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 others to London where I quarter'd as usual (now my son...John Marsh Isaac d'IsraeliVarien; or Sketches of the TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Brought from the library] "Varieties of English Literature" vol 1st which being unintelligible stuff for the most part I don't intend to have the second vol.'Joseph Hunter [William] [Tooke]Varieties of Literature From Foreign Literary JourPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...anon variousPrint: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases
1700-1799My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing readin...Francis Place variousPrint: Book
1700-1799My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing readin...Francis Place variousPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my n...George Gordon Lord Byron William Lisle BowlesvariousPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or works of sentimental fiction); twenty-two French works...Anna Larpent variousvariousPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made a very deep and lasting impression in my mind. By re...James Lackington ConfuciusvariousPrint: Book
1700-1799?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural H...James Lackington unknownVariousPrint: Book


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