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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'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 8th Nov. 1943 A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read. Frank Knight immediately proved w...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[on A. E. Housman, and A Shropshire Lad]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 R. H. Robson in the chair.
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2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc & hi...		Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc[on Algiers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[On Benjamin Disraeli’s chief works]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socia...Print: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Ethel C. Stevens Ethel Stevens[On Chelsea, Carlyle, Tennyson, J. S. Mill, et. al...Unknown
1850-1899'read on the colour-sense'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[on colour sense]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet[on composition]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] Emile Littre[on Comte]Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White[on Copyright]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Muriel Stevens Pablo Picasso[on Cubism]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Sylvanus A. Reynolds[On Disraeli’s political life as far as the 1860’s...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Janet Rawlings Janet Rawlings[On E. H. Young’s Miss Mole]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as si...John Aikin Knox[on education]Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[On Friendship]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Rosamund Wallis William Temple[on gardens]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[on German philosophy]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the h...James Boswell Jonathan Edwards[on Grace]Print: Book
1700-1799'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the h...Dr Mayo Jonathan Edwards[on Grace]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

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4. The subject of the eveni...		Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks[on John Ruskin’s ideas on political economy and s...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read my darling's M.S. on Language'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[on language]Manuscript: Unknown


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