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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
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Heinrich JacobiWerke (Vol I-III [of 6])Print: Book
1800-1849'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronWernerManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un écrivain très remarquable. Her opinions on questions dealing with the colonies a...Joseph Conrad Mary KingsleyWest African StudiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un écrivain très remarquable. Her opinions of questions dealing with the colonies a...Joseph Conrad Mary KingsleyWest African StudiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies 'John Buckley Castieau Anthony TrollopeWest IndiesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWest-Ostliche DivanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Our section is sleeping in a cowshed with straw to lie on. It is not so bad, but you have to sleep with all your clothes on. I suppose you read every day the lette...John Michael Howard Harker Western Daily PressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on your neck.' Arnold Bennett Westminster GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett Westminster GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘I am back in the Trenches now and my address is altered as you notice. Thank you for Lawrence offer but cloth books are so bulky and impossible out here. I have sent...Isaac Rosenberg Westminster GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1850-1899'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she seems to have been happy that he should choose the bo...Lord and Lady CavendishCharles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1850-1899'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I think very beautiful and interesting'Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
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....		Howard Smith Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Howard Smith Charles E. KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
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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Dorothy Brain Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Elsie Sikes Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'The book that influenced me most in this direction was Sylvanus Stall's, What a Young Man Ought to Know, which I accepted as the guiding testament of youth in all...Vero Walter Garratt Sylvanus StallWhat a Young Man Ought to KnowPrint: Book
1900-1945'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". Vera Brittain Victor GollanczWhat Buchenwald Really MeansPrint: Pamphlet


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