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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'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-BrockWilliam Morris: his Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, Glebe Road: 15. V. 34.
    Reginald H. Robson in the chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Howard Smith Howard SmithWilliam Morris’s Prose RomancesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — this little selection.'Joseph Conrad Hubert WellingtonWilliam RothensteinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Friedrich SchillerWilliam TellPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a p...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerWilliam TellPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799
1800-1849		Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with the title I am satisfied-and disappointed.Ellen Weeton By the Editor of the Letters of Maria Windermere. A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Mrs Kaye James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Miss Marriage James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Walter Rowntree James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyWindowsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]WindsorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon William Harrison AinsworthWindsor CastlePrint: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel William Harrison AinsworthWindsor CastlePrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeWindsor ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding A.A. MilneWinne-the-PoohPrint: Book
1900-1945For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh...Patricia Beer A.A. MilneWinnie the PoohPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading a biography of Churchill - did not know much about his career, but going back into the past one can see how it has all grown and how very far-sighted a man he ...Vere Hodgson Carl Eric Bechofer RobertsWinston Churchill: Being an Account of the Life of...Print: Book
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'winter / bernard barton'Mary Groom Bernard BartonWinterUnknown
1800-1849Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.Charles Lamb Charles CottonWinterUnknown


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