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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
 
1700-1799'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those with which your Lordship has condescended to honour yo...Laetitia Pilkington Lord Kingsborough[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying to me - that it was I who was guilty of severing the...Ralph Glasser Lilian Glasser[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Thomas Gray[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, trenching upon all the old forbidden ground. Even Mad...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus, incipit I:C:T:U:S. which is an Abbreviation though...Hester Lynch Thrale Lord Corke[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner who was discharged to take away. They were more seri...John Buckley Castieau [convict][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demanderai cette Grace" - speaking of the Life & Health of L...Hester Lynch Thrale Francois Fenelon[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in Lancaster, dated 19.7.1942. Both think Nora is here...Thomas Kitching [n/a][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, two-and-a-half from Brenda and one from Pip, with dat...Thomas Kitching [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Charles and Katherine EvansRobert Louis Stevenson[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Celia Burrow William Cowper[letters]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Katherine Evans Robert Louis Stevenson[letters]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...George Burrow Charles Lamb[letters]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading over his old letters. I have not many , we were so seldom apart...'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been looking over some very old letters of hers [sister Elizabeth], and it is not a very cheeerful occupation...'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been reading such old letters of my mother's, about going to school; it is like looking into a forgotten picture of myself.'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been reading your father's letters to William which he has kept... What a blessing science was to him through all his anxieties and his bad health.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter, Letters from Charles Darwin to his son William.
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Dorothy Brain Charles Lutwidge Dodgson[letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'I found a deskful of old letters which I had quite forgotten ... It is a sad feeling in reading old letters that I have no one to sympathise in such old memories.'Emma Darwin [letters]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. Mary S. Stansfield Gertrude Bell[Letters]Print: Book


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