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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 Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.


1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. Charles St...

Members of the XII Book ClubJ. M. BarrieWhat Every Woman Knows Print: Book
1900-1945'Sister Edith remains and kindly helped me wind pink wool at night Read "what I found out" so long that I could not read any more!! so May hunted up wool for me to knit.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Went to Library[.] Finished "What I found out".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s "Essays", and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no fic...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsWhat is Coming: A Forecast of Things after the WarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'.Catherine Austen M SWhat is Love?Unknown
1900-1945'Despite my opposition ... I looked about for literature that would extend my knowledge of the subject [of Socialism]. One of the first and best discoveries I was a penny...Vero Walter Garratt Paul B. BullWhat Is Socialism?Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899
1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Susan M. CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given to me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of the books enjoyed].'Eileen Lawrence Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945[I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all those red books that aren't allowed, I get all those.....H. RathboneWhat Next in GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was tr...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyWhat Then Must We Do?Print: Book
1850-1899'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous condensation" of a sensational serial which the paper h...Arnold Bennett Grant AllenWhat's bred in the bonePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George Gordon, Lord ByronWhen coldness wraps this suffering clayPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett Charles ShawWhen I was a ChildPrint: Book
'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workhouse, are not drawn from Enoch's own past, but largel...Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a child, recollections from an old pott...Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a Child, Recollections of an Old PotterPrint: Book
'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in his life.'Bernard Law Montgomery Guy ThorneWhen it was DarkPrint: Book


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