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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'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin [n/a][a Latin-English Dictionary]Print: Book
1700-1799'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involved] to Mr. Burke, he was highly pleased, and exclaime...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[a legal argument]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road.
18𤪚0
M Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last were read and signed.

[...]

3...		Howard and Elsie Sykes[A letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks Ethel Stevens[A letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road.
18𤪚0
M Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last were read and signed.

[...]

3...		Members of the XII Book ClubHoward Smith[a letter of thanks & good wishes from the XII Boo...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

牋 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excu...

Victor Alexander Celia Burrow[A letter offering to hold a meeting of the XII Bo...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40. Rosamund Walis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last ...		Ethel C. Stevens [a child of thirteen] [a letter to John Ruskin]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'He now referred to two sheets of paper, which he had with him, saying that he was late (no apologies) because he had just been on the telephone with London and he'd tak... [a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much'Sarah Harriet Burney Charlotte Barrett[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had no...Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], which, to the best of my Knowledge, was this: Mada...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan Swift[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Alfred Rawlings Charles Lamb[a letter]Unknown
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen [a list in Latin of benefactors]Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at 233 Shinfield Road, 29 XI. 1934

1. At Mrs Goadby抯 request, C. E. Stansfield took the chair, and in the absence of the Secretary, F. E. Pol...		Members of the XII Book ClubA committee of the XII Book Club [A list of books proposed for purchase by the club...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very respectfully, but could not help smiling, when I foun...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington[a love letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moff...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell[a mathematical paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes...Thomas Burke John Keats[a minor poem]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashion...Anne Romilly Richard Lovell Edgeworth[a narrative]Unknown


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