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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
 
1850-1899'Long dull day. Read "Dead Man's Book" [?] all afternoon.' Gertrude Bell ?The Book of the DeadPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Victor Alexander John Nyren?The Cricketers of my TimePrint: Book
1900-1945'I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Ruper...Gertrude Bell Edith Wharton?The Custom of the CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Little Marjorie's birthday. The verses in Daily Light were as usual uplifting ... Much enjoyed J. 20. 19, 20 with the patients in Hope Ward.'Albert Ruskin Cook ?The Daily Light Birthday BookPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Edward Gibbon?The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Charles C. F. Greville?The Greville MemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook ?Mary ?Bayly?The Life and Letters of Mrs SewellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious ele...Joseph Conrad Roman Dyboski?The Religious Element in Polish National LifePrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'It rained all the afternoon. I finished "L'Etape" and began Sir A Lyall's "English in India" and was rather bored and cold.' Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
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5. R....		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Mortimer Menpes?The ThamesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund Spenser?The Works of Mr Edmund SpenserPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the delightful little book and for the far too delightful inscription you put into it. I opened it after breakfast at the vocabulary essay and read that ag...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell?Topics for ConversationPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Ernest Renan?tudes d?histoire religieusePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook ?Moses ?Harvey?Where Are We and Whither Tending?Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Morris?work on ornithologyPrint: Book
1700-1799"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see t...Mary Hamilton John Lodge Cowley?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]Print: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John Richard GreenA A Short History of the English People Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished Batchelor's Comedy.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook J. E. Buckrose (pseud.)A Bachelor's ComedyPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [Ethel's sister], and probably you. Please tell me ...Virginia Woolf Edith WhartonA Backward GlancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. I...Lucy Maud Montgomery A Bad Boy's DiryPrint: Book


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