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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'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereig...Ralph Glasser [n/a][inscriptions at the Bodleian library]Manuscript: Graffito
1700-1799'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][inscriptions]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'In the evening all the boys came rushing excited to my terrace with baskets full of pots. They are rough and ugly, but they have pre-Islamic letters scratched on t...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][inscriptions]Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau [Institutional reports]Unknown
1900-1945'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she mu... [n/a][Intelligence lists of communists]Print: Unknown
1900-1945We went to St. Tropez to see my Alsatian friends and pushed on to lunch at Paradou, and found A. Besse very cheerful with 7 ladies (including ourselves) around him,...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][intelligence reports from Abyssinia]Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

<...		Francis Pollard Gilbert Murray[Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alc...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Arnold Joselin J. Dover Wilson[Introduction to Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anar...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in lis...Charles E. Stansfield John Galsworthy[Introduction to the 'Forsyte Saga']Print: Book
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart[Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1900-1945'The leaflet makes a special point of common sense but the way it urges people to use it is unconsciously the upper class talking to the stupid mass. This unconscious att...Ministry of Information [invasion leaflet]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Elsie Sikes unknown[Irish Bulls]Unknown
1850-1899'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the ne...John Martin [n/a][Irish newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now ...George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... . I looked into the Italian Grammar;...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknown[Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Italian history of the Venetian Doges]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'Mary Shelley [unknown][Italian operas]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) unknown[Italian poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) unknown[Italian prose texts]Print: Book


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