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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
 
1700-1799'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answere...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for s...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to him the one upon death and I sat with him for some ti...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read to the old Normans'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'read to Mrs Norman'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15th of Corinthians to them. Oh [underline] how [end u...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1900-1945'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century", she admitted. "I thought of nineteenth century lit...Rosamond Lehmann [nineteenth century fiction by women]Print: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hou...Zoe Procter [unknown][nineteenth-century poets]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whether in prose or poetry - and the more I read, the mo...Vita Sackville-West unknown[nineteenth-century works]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Margaret Dilks Violet Clough[Note giving apologies for absence]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Margaret Dilks Mr. and Mrs Knox Taylor[Note giving apologies for absence]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held on Monday 27th October at the Palace Theatre

The Book Club turned out almost in its entirety to see in Marie Tempest in “The First Mrs. Fras...		Francis E. Pollard Margaret Dilks[Note of a visit made by members of the XII Book C...Manuscript: Note
1800-1849I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else.Charles Dickens Barrow[note on the qualities of tobacco]Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle


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