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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
 
1800-1849'Greek - Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- 'Jane Baillie Welsh Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Tristan BernardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have...Douglas Herbert Bell Una L. SilberradThe Affairs of John BolsoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief introduction to the ...		Victor Alexander Unidentified member of the XII Book Club Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1850-1899'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'Erasmus Wilson unknown Hunger and ThirstPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown [Penny Dreadfuls]Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in AlgiersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown [didactic poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown Blue BeardPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawb...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'Joseph Conrad unknown  Print: Book
1900-1945'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellent notices in J[osé] Echegarray's play ("Cleansing St...unknown  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson unknown [unknown texts concerning the life of André Mauroi...Unknown


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