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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 Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...Charles Stansfield Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945' I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Rupe...Gertrude Bell Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's The Soldier. I cannot feel ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Rupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book
1900-1945‘J. E. Patterson has written a book around Minehead, perhaps "Fishers of the Sea", or no—"Love Like the Sea"; which I liked. Perhaps you might. He has power, but an a...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rupert Brooke"1914." Five SonnetsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945‘Here I am, sitting on my bed, half-reading Carlyle, little soaking through to my dull mind, when I become aware that a boxing match is being arranged … I am not alto...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rupert BrookeLetters from AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Rupert Brooke"1914." Five SonnetsPrint: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Your Georgian B. has arrived at last; many many thanks. I pounced on King Lear’s Wife, and though it was not more than I expected, it was not less. The only fault I ...Isaac Rosenberg Rupert BrookeCloudsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley Rupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Bruce Dilks Rupert Thomas GouldThe Stargazer TalksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Howard Smith Rupert Thomas GouldMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Print: Book
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett Russell LowellunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeDr SynPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeThe return of Dr. SynPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothing so much upsets & demoralises as this looking at on...Virginia Woolf Ruth GruberVirginia Woolf: A StudyPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym]The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa DefendedPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Moulton-Barrett family (children)S. W.A Visit to a Farm-housePrint: Book
'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke Hook's stories of Jack, Sam and Pete in the Boys' F...C.H. Rolph S. Clarke Hook[Jack, Sam and Pete stories]Print: Book
1900-1945On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".'Vera Brittain S. L. SolonArticle in the "News Chronicle"Print: Newspaper
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.'Gabriel Harvey S. Stefano GuazzoCivil ConversationPrint: Book


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