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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
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodepigramManuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him.
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Frederick Locker-Lampson Thomas HoodepigramUnknown
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Allan Goadby Thomas HoodFaithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic BalladPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Elizabeth Edminson Thomas HoodSong of the ShirtPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Frederick Edminson Thomas Hood Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius. [...] 'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius. [...] 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastas...Claire Clairmont Thomas HopeAnastasius: Or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Thomas HughesTom BrownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Thomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ...Octavia Hill Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.' Hilary Spalding Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesThomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's college friend Monteith). On this journey he read aloud ...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Charles E. Stansfield Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Dar...Ben Tillett Thomas Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Thomas HuxleyLifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have undergone no improvement. Jamie Thompson still spe...Thomas Carlyle Thomas IrvingIntroductory AddressPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'parts are eloquent & true, some too partial & self-satisfied, underrating the evil more than overrating the good, a little of it we should formerly at Christ Church have...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas James'College Life'Print: Serial / periodical


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