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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'Mins of last meeting read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
'Mins of last meeting read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'Howard R. Smith Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved


[...]

4 The Most Part...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 19...Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook
1900-1945

A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[This apparently refers ...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun ...Manuscript: Notebook
1800-1849?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown to me. One was the second volume of Homer?s "Iliad"...Samuel Bamford John Milton[miscellaneous poems]Print: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford John Milton[miscellaneous works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very ple...George Crabbe [unknown][Miscellany]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][modern works on Classical subjects]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I have often thought, that he wondered to find so much go...James Boswell [Monthly and Critical Reviews]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I have often thought, that he wondered to find so much go...Joshua Reynolds [Monthly and Critical Reviews]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the ...Amelia Opie unknown[moral tales]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons o...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[morning newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the mo...Thomas Carter [n/a][morning newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper


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