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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 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...		Arnold Joselin Arnold Joselin[on Matthew Arnold’s work as an educationalist]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Alfred Rawlings Edward Whymper[on mountaineering accidents]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Foster[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[on old Berkshire Ballads]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Broomfield: 22.3.1932
George Burrow in the chair
1. The minutes of last were read by Sylvanus Reynolds, who had kindly deputised for the Se...		Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[On overpopulation and the disappearance of the Vi...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903: 'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team? I wish you would as I am in a raging temper, which...Leonard Woolf George Stout[on Psychology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'George Eliot [pseud] Edward Gibbon[on revival of Greek learning]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Muriel Stevens Muriel Stevens[on Ruskin’s theories on art & artists]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus[on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[on Sicilian History]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart Mill[on socialism]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[on Spinoza]Print: BookManuscript: 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...		Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[On T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942 Arnold Joselin in the Chair
2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] took it upo...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[on the Age of Pericles]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[On the artistic and socialist aspects of William ...Manuscript: Unknown
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...		Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks[on the development of music in England from the F...Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those thing...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		Elsie Harrod Elsie Harrod[on the housing question: proposing that no house ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


[...]

...		Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[on the later work of Walter Scott]Manuscript: Unknown


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