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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
 
1700-1799'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne James Thomson[a tragedy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisb...Mr Fitzherbert Dr Kennedy[a tragedy]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

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5. H. M Wallis then gav...		Henry Marriage Wallis Rudyard Kipling[a True Tale]Unknown
1700-1799'I wrote another musical drama of three acts, and showed it to Mr Siddons. He approved of it very highly, with the exception of some trivial scenes, which I promised to a...Mr Siddons James Hogg[a verse drama]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening Elizabethan Drama other than Shakespear was then taken. Geo Burrow read a very short introduction to the subject.'George Burrow George Burrow[A very short introduction to Elizabethan drama ot...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home wit...Martin Wentworth Littlewood [A work on vegetal medicine]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Reginald H. Robson Anon [A ‘passage analysing the nature of Humour’]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with so...John Mitchel [unknown][Abyssinia]Print: Book
1900-1945'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays t...James Boswell James Boswell[account given to him by Mrs Williams]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as she cannot bear that you should remain any longer un...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen Nussey[account of Anne Bronte's death]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton [unknown][account of Bounty mutiny]Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Mary Hayward Leslie Stephen[account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn]Print: Book
1850-1899'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?' [letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is pr...Mary Shelley Abraham Hayward[account of Euroipean travels]Print: Book
1700-1799'This evening I heard a lecture of a work made by Mr de Bressac which is the description of all the murders and horrors committed in France during the Rebellion. It is ea...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [Mr] de Bressac[account of French Rebellion]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last me...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[account of G. K. Chesterton's book on Charles Dic...Print: Book
1800-1849'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial seats in the kingdom, lately purchased by Sir -- Arkwr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mr Morritt[account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire]Unknown
1900-1945'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi...Lilian Goadby Lilian Goadby[account of life of William Morris]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney How[account of mission]Print: Book


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