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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'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [...Joseph Conrad Rodney MundyNarrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'Thomas Carlyle Roger Ascham?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Victor Alexander Roger Ascham Unknown
1600-1699'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality thou...Dorothy Osborne Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:] 'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to go into the country [following visit to Talbot 'on Tu...Catherine Talbot Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: Book
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Roger Fry Roger Fryautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906: 'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds]. It seems, though I have only had time to ...Leonard Woolf Roger FryThe Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of ...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably]A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established...Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
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6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Howard Smith Roger Martin du GardLes ThibaultPrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Roger Moore Roger Moore[Address on ballads and folk song]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Bruce Dilks Roger Moore[an essay on the difficulty of choosing its subjec...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219, Kings Road. 15th October 1942. Dorothea Taylor in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
2. The secret...		Roger Moore Roger Moore[The Life of Charles Lamb]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40. Rosamund Walis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last ...		Roger Moore[An introduction to the subject of letters]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

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4. Roger Moore gave...		Roger Moore Roger Moore[A biographical sketch of John Keats, chiefly as r...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Roger MooreLiterary Gleanings [an essay on the Thames in Lite...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...'Sarah Harriet Burney Roger de Rabutin, Comte de BussyLes Lettres de Messire Roger de RabutinPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules", being a pretty Libell against the amours o...Samuel Pepys Roger de Rabutin, Comte de BussyL'histoire amoureuse des GaulesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy[letters]Print: Book


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