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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 Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]

2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire B...		Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc and his ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][an Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that thousands are not born to taste! "O! blind to truth,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]Print: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought ...Colley Cibber Colley Cibber[an ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing. I told him ...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[an Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Goldsmith one day brought to the Club a printed Ode, which he, with others, had been hearing re... [an ode]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]

2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire B...		Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc[An opinion of St. Just]Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

George Burrow in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last approved


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6. Victor ...

Victor Alexander Victor Alexander[an outline of the career of Molière and a sketch ...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.
[...]
...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[an outline of the plot of The Admirable Crichton]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
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...		[Unidentified member[s] of the XII Book Club] [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [An undidentified English dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219, Kings Road. 15th October 1942. Dorothea Taylor in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
2. The secret...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Charles Lamb[an unnamed sonnet, as revised by S. T. Coleridge]Unknown
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 meeting were read and...		Members and perhaps guests of the XII Book Clubanon [an ‘In Memoriam’ verse printed in the Berkshire C...Print: Newspaper
1600-1699'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sil...Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] [unknown][anatomy of the body]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Wully Carruthers [ancient and modern history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn [unknown][Ancient Greek literature]Print: Book
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley [unknown][Ancient Greek works]Print: Book
1700-1799'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too long to transcribe'.Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph Spence[Anecdotes]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		'In the latter part of her life devoted the most of her secret and leisure hours to Mr Henrys Annotations which she would often say were the most plain, profitable and pl...Elizabeth Bury Henry[Annotations]Print: Book
1900-1945'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.Ralph Glasser [n/a][announcement of Einstein talk]Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott Dodsley[Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Librar...Print: Serial / periodical


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