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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 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last m...		Howard Smith Howard Smith[a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the...		Howard Smith Howard Smith[A biographical sketch of Robert Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

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2. The m...		Alice Joselin Alice Joselin[a biographical study of the Brontë family]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[a biography of Keats]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[iament] in 1644 and goes on to remark in the next sent...Leslie Stephen [a biography]Unknown
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of...Margaret Hoby [unknown][a book of the pews in the church]Manuscript: Codex
1700-1799'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in Abyssinia eat cuts from the live Beast; yet Mr Coxe &...Hester Lynch Thrale [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]Print: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Victor Alexander Victor Alexander[A brief account of the career of William Fryer Ha...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
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...		Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks[a brief biographical sketch of J. M. Barrie]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[A brief introduction to American Literature]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[A brief introduction to the brothers [sic] Zweig ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 64, Northcourt Avenue. 24th. Sept. 1945.
Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
Arnold Joselin Arnold Joselin[a brief outline of the history of science]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved


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4. The Subje...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [a Christian response to Darwinism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

[...]

6. Celia Burrow read Th...		Howard Smith Edwin Muir[A critical essay on Rudyard Kipling]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[a critical essay on the Brontë sisters]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[a defence of reason in an age of unreason]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[a defence of vice]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary E. Robson Mary. E Robson[a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Yo...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[a description of Samuel Johnson’s circle]Manuscript: Unknown


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