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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'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Walter Rowntree [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Elizabeth Ann Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Howard Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on Byron]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[essay on Dwarfs and Giants]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Pattie Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on gardening]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...Frederick J. Edminson Frederick J. Edminson[Essay on Goldwin Smith as historian]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[essay on Hampton Court Gardens]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

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4. The subject of the eveni...		Faith Miller Faith Miller[essay on John Ruskin: his life, his writings and ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1787", there...James Boswell Robert Burrowes[Essay on Johnson's style]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[essay on Keats' life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Keats]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...John James Cooper John James Cooper[Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the prose & poetical works of Matthew Arnold were given by ...Frederick J. Edminson Frederick J. Edminson[essay on Matthew Arnold]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Elizabeth Montague[essay on Shakespeare]Print: Book
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on Shaw's Life and Works]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson[essay on the Life of Chatterton]Print: Unknown


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