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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'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'. Gerald Moore Victor MacClureThe Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of LondonPrint: Book
1900-1945I have not read 'La Gar鏾nne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness...Arnold Bennett Victor MargueritteLa GarconnePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		[Unnamed member of the XII Book Club] Victor and Elizabeth Alexander[telegram expressing apologies for absence from a ...Print: Telegram
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road.
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M Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last were read and signed.

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3...		Mary Pollard Victor and Elizabeth Alexander[letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Victor-Marie Hugo[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Victor-Marie HugoNotre-Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Victor-Marie HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day. The Latin Poems of V...Charles Lamb Vincent BourneLatin PoemsUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Vincent Le BlancThe world surveyed: or, The famous voyages & trava...Print: Book
1700-1799'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'Susanna Arabella Thrale Vincent de VoitureLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I] 'Read Memoires of the last Revo...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.'Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 6 and 7 June 1820].Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. [records of furthe...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' [readings from latter text also recorded in entries for 26, 27, 29 July 1820]. ...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.' Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.' Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'Mary and Percy ShelleyVincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiCajo GracchoPrint: Book


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