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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'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher John Evans[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher ?Thomas Watson[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher unknown Thompson[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in r...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[lines on Dermody]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][Linnaean botany book]Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jackson, I begged of Mr Lumb to meet us there. he did s...William Wordsworth [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement]Unknown
1900-1945'5th January ? Wednesday. I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, considering that I always read the books I start on.' Gerald Moore Gerald Moore[list of books read in 1926]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
4. The Book list committee then submitted a list of twelve books with various alternatives. With one e...		Members of the XII Book Club[A committee of the XII Book Club] [List of books suggested for purchase by the XII B...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends a list, which there was pretty good reason to suppos...James Boswell [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbourhood, I was sorry to find that half a dozen whose n...William Wordsworth [list of new freeholders]Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved


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Victor Alexander XII Book Club Book Selection Committee [List of twelve books proposed for purchase by the...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [literary biographies]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as sh...Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund Gosse[literary criticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the literature on the subject. The Secretary read a letter of...Charles Stansfield [literature on Christian Science]Print: Book
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown][Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]Print: Book
1850-1899'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are...George Eliot [pseud] Meiner[lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [n/a][local and sports papers]Print: Newspaper


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