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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 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...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Jean Sibelius]Manuscript: Unknown
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...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Ludwig van Beethoven]Manuscript: Unknown
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...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Richard Strauss]Manuscript: Unknown
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...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Tchaikovsky]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock[biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

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5. Alice...		Alice Joselin unknown [biographical texts on the Brontë family]Unknown
'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		Alice Joselin unknown [biographical works on William Blake]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...		Howard Smith unknown [biographical work[s] on Charles Dickens]Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] unknown[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and...Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1800-1849'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tastes lying largely in the direction of biography ... ...James Glass Bertram Samuel Smiles[biographies of men]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark...Leslie Stephen [biographies]Print: Book
1900-1945'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be interesting - I've only read two American books that I... unknown[biography and travel]Print: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'Emma Darwin unknown unknown[Biography of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford [Anon] [Anon][biography of Daniel Boone]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford [Anon] [Anon][biography of Davy Crockett]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning of it with the help of a Persian dictionary, but a L...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Biography of Hafiz]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford [Anon] [Anon][biography of Robert E. Lee]Print: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen [biography of Shelley]Print: Book


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