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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
 
1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie, marquise de Sevigne[letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain]Print: Book
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; ...Elizabeth van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters to her daughter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...James Boswell James Thomson[letters to his sister and accounts by them of his...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[letters to his sisters and accounts by them of hi...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Dorothy Brain Benjamin Disraeli[Letters to his sister]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special shock, for to my amazement I had difficulty decipher...Ralph Glasser Mr Glasser[letters to his son, Ralph]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise o...Anne Romilly Percy Bysshe Shelley[letters to his wife Harriet]Unknown
1700-1799'Delighted with some of her husband's letters, [Mrs Barlow] has exultingly shewn them to me; and, though I took care not to let her see it, I was almost disgusted with th...Mary Wollstonecraft Mr Barlow[letters to his wife]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My Willi...Mary Shelley Mary Shelley[letters to PB Shelley]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][letters to Swift from various correspondents]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington Henry St John Bolingbroke[letters to Swift]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander Pope[letters to Swift]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not very agreeable things'.Antonia White Frances Grigson[letters to Tom Hopkinson]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and...Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand[Letters to Voltaire]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I hav...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to W.S. Williams]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has ...		Howard Smith Ralph Smith[Letters written from a prison camp in Germany]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has ...		Howard Smith Ralph Smith[Letters written from Salonika]Manuscript: Letter
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Muriel Stevens [anonymous authors] [letters written to children]Unknown
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-e...Marcus Tullius Cicero[Letters]


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