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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 Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Arnold Joselin Sylvanus A. ReynoldsAn Autumn RambleUnknown
1800-1849'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sylvester JuddMargaret, a Tale of the Real and the IdealPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat by the fire and read the Ranee of Sarawak's biography. Cannot think why she had such awful daughters.'Vere Hodgson Sylvia BrookeSylvia of Sarawak: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid ...Gerald Moore Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of SarawakGood Morning and Good NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Sylvia Townsend Warner Print: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes ('how si...Edward Morgan Forster Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832: 'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you for lending Synesius to me [...] I have gone thro...Elizabeth Barrett Synesius Bishop of PtolemaisHymnsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde T MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.'Catherine Austen T MooreLines on the death of a dear friendUnknown
1600-1699'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'Samuel Pepys T Trice[answer to Pepys's bill]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to take a hand in editing it and I think it would take re...James Hogg T. BrownArt of reading and conversing on the works of the ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker T. MitchellReview of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient GreeksPrint: Serial / periodical
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...		Francis E. Pollard T. ThompsonBlitzkriegPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Sylvanus A. Reynolds T. B. Clark[Triolets]Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'Walter Scott T. Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson T. E. Lawrence[unspecified text]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherT. H. Huxley Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 28 March 1826: 'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which aspires to describe the actual current of society; ...Walter Scott T. H. ListerGranbyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome ped...Thomas Babington Macaulay T. J. MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book


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