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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
 
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."Leslie Stephen [an article on Shakespeare]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'we read one of Carlyle's articles, at the T. Sedgwicks'.'Harriet Matineau and Mary AppletonThomas Carlyle[an article]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns ... [an epigram]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
<...		Reginald H. Robson G. K. Chesterton[an essay on Dante]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
<...		Reginald H. Robson G. K. Chesterton[an essay on George Bernard Shaw]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the...		Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[An essay on ghosts with reference to the Psychica...Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks[an essay on programme music]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Bruce Dilks Roger Moore[an essay on the difficulty of choosing its subjec...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

...

Thomas C. Elliott George Santayana[An essay on war]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


[...]

4. The Subje...

Thomas C. Elliott Thomas C. Elliott[An estimate of Vitor Hugo's verse and his positio...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Edith Goadby Edith Goadby[An evocation of Old London]
1700-1799'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscription on a Stone he saw - which was set up as he then fo...Cornelius Ford [an inscription]Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[an introduction to Matthew Arnold’s poetry, his t...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absences of the Secretary the minute of the last meeting were ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[an introduction to modern poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940.
R. D. L. Moore in the Chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
Violet Clough Violet Clough[An introduction to the play Robert’s Wife by St. ...Manuscript: Unknown
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 ...		Roger Moore[An introduction to the subject of letters]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[an introduction to the topic of modern authors] Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...George Burrow George Burrow[an introduction to the topic of the Sitwells]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Charles I. Evans Charles I. Evans[An introduction to the topic of ‘Bees in Music an...Manuscript: Unknown


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