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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'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiGaleotto Manfredi, principe di FaenzaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiGaleotto ManfrediPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiCaio GraccoPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves bri...Virginia Woolf Viola MeynellAlice Meynell. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 18th October 1940.
R. D. L. Moore in the Chair.
[...]
2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
Violet Clough Violet Clough[An introduction to the play Robert’s Wife by St. ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Violet Clough Violet CloughChildren’s LiteratureManuscript: Unknown
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...		Margaret Dilks Violet Clough[Note giving apologies for absence]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays....Thomas Hardy Violet HuntWhite Rose of Withered LeafPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has saile...Ford Madox Ford Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sail...Rebecca West Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribu...Albert Boni Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Violet HuntI Have This to SayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing till I had read tho...Joseph Conrad Violet Hunt The House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedic...Joseph Conrad Violet HuntThe House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to bed. I wonder which famous case you were thinking of when y...William Henry Hudson Violet HuntTales of the UneasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Violet Wallis read a paper on Carols'. [the paper's contents are summarised]Violet Wallis Violet Wallis[paper on carols]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Violet Wallis read a paper on the Faust legends from the point of view of Medieval History. It was a most interesting introduction to the subject.'Violet Wallis Violet Wallis[paper on Faust legends]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

1. An apology for absence was read from Mr. & Mrs. Joselyn. 		Members of the XII Book ClubViolet Clough, Muriel Stevens and F. E. Pollard Typed lists of books proposed for purchase by the...Manuscript: Typescript
1800-1849'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia...Samuel Bamford Virgil  Print: Book


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