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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'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide simple things are satisfying, but wireless sets are... [n/a][morning newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


5. Eight anonymo...

Howard Smith Janet Rawlings[Moroccan memories]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'John Ruskin [unknown][Moschele's life]Print: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an...Jack Jones Fyodor Dostoevsky[most works]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bowyer's Life"; a book so full of contemporary history...Samuel Johnson [Mr Bowyer's Life]Print: Book
1700-1799'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing; and that I had improved upon [italics] Young [end ...Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Thrale[MS 'character' of Johnson]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[MS article on Mad Dogs]Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article
1700-1799'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two quarto volumes, containing a full, fair, and most pa...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[MS Autobiography]Manuscript: quarto volumes
1600-1699'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about 100 years since, which he did lend us to read and d...Samuel Pepys James Humphrey[MS Collections]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write. I burnt it. I... hoped he would stop me... He expla...Ian Henderson Antonia White[MS fiction]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [...William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth[MS narrative]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for...Virginia Woolf unknown[ms novel]Manuscript: Codex
1700-1799'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when only 13 Years old. Both the Authour & his Friend swea...Hester Lynch Thrale William Jones[MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses, Sketches, emendations &c. strange that a Man shd ke...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope[MS of his translations of Homer]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Harrison[MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of L...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordswo...William Wordsworth John Wilson[MS poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I say that however much of truth there may be in them...Charles Dickens George Cox[MS verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read but I see there are some excellent articles in it a...James Hogg [MS volume of Jacbite material]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sorely'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Bell[MS. novel]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown


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