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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
 
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Howard Smith Howard Smith[essay on the life of G. K. Chesterton]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...Francis Pollard Leo Tolstoy[essay on the Russian Famine]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Francis Pollard Francis Pollard[essay on Trollope]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Reginald Robson Charles Stansfield[essay on Twain]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place David Hume[Essays and Treatises]Print: Book
1800-1849‘The Rydal Mount family...They were all hugely belly-ached with Townshend’s articles in Blackwood, which was almost as silly as the articles themselves. C. H. Townshend...Hartley Coleridge Chauncey Hare Townshend[essays in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving[essays on Burns and monuments]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find there some remarks by one you know on American exper...Leslie Stephen [Essays on Reform]Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essays]Print: Book
1850-1899'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati...John Masefield Richard Steele[essays]Print: Book
1850-1899'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati...John Masefield Joseph Addison[essays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essays]Print: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter James Beattie[Essays]Print: Book
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.'Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington Macaulay[essays]Print: Unknown
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter David Hume[Essays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opinions'.Anne Romilly August Wilhelm von Schlegel[Essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly, the style of Addison as nerveless and feeble, beca...James Boswell Joseph Addison[essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[essays]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thi...Samuel Johnson Richard Steele[Essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical


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