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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Simon OckleyHistory of the SaracensPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley Simon OckleyThe Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the S...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am...Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - 'Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Sinclair Lewis Print: Book
1900-1945'I've nearly finished "World's End" by Sinclair Lewis. It's a grand book. I started it because I enjoyed 'Between Two Worlds' so much. I enjoy a good novel.' Sinclair LewisWorld's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I a...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisOur Mr WrennPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hungerings are illustrated in this book. It has given me...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisMartin ArrowsmithPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and n...Lesley Edna Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and wel...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
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


[...]

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Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisBabbitt
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
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...		Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisBabbitPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and ...Samuel Pepys Sir DavenantThe first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by...Print: Book
1800-1849'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus". And, not to speak ...John Mitchel Sir Alexander Burnes[Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]Print: Book
1850-1899'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual obser...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallEastern Studies, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...anon Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book


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