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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'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Charles Evans [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Charles Stansfield [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Mr Clough [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Violet Wallis [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1850-1899?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[material on John Knox]Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people always find consolation very easily for the misfortunes...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Rochefoucault[Maxims and moral reflections?]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding [medical books]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1800-1849'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work w...Joseph Barker Helkiah Crooke[medical folio]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rhea and his staff are hard at work—Rhea working more particularly at the bacteriology of wounds with special reference to anaërobes ... Jack McCrae looked very fit, but...John Alexander McCrae [medical journals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Marcus Aurelius[Meditations]?Print: Book
1850-1899'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Ger...John Ruskin William Bell Scott[memoir David Scott]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Thomas Hopkins Richard Evelyn Byrd[memoir of an Antarctic expedition]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward i...Sydney Smith Lady Raffles[memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles...Print: Book
1700-1799'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his character, is, I trust, too well established in the ju...James Boswell William Mason[Memoir of William Whitehead]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte [memoirs and history]Print: Book
1700-1799[Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired as to whether it was her accounts] 'This Gentleman, w...an earl Laetitia Pilkington[Memoirs and Poems]Manuscript: volume
1800-1849'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his request, I carried the MS to the warehouse, but it did ...G H Girle G H Girle[memoirs]Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs
1800-1849'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron[Memoirs]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord Byron[Memoirs]Unknown


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