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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
 
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Howard Smith unknown [works concerning the life of G. K Chesterton]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Howard Smith unknown [texts on 17th-century Quaker history, in particul...Print: Book
'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		Alice Joselin unknown [biographical works on William Blake]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Howard Smith unknown [biographical work[s] on Charles Dickens]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Cyril Langford unknown [a newspaper article on Wuthering Heights]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Cyril Langford unknown [a newspaper article on Wuthering Heights]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

5. Alice...		Alice Joselin unknown [biographical texts on the Brontë family]Unknown
1900-1945'Rested all morning. Read "Times" and rested again after lunch.'Verena Vera Pennefather unknown The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Darwin[article on 'Diseased Volition']Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Guillemin[presumably astronomy text]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.'Emma Darwin unknown LowellUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown NealeHistory of the PuritansPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell unknown Nichols[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Have lately been reading some very practical and spiritual treatises such as Shepherd on the Ten Virgins and my shortcomings make me almost weary of myself'Arabella Davies unknown ShepherdunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher unknown Thompson[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Pol...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dia...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our can...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 28 February 1848:

'From the papers of Saturday I had learnt the abdication of Louis Phili...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[news of abdication of French king Louis Philippe]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book, Newspaper


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