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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'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Great Britain General staff War Office Field Service Pocket BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'The house in which some of us were lodged was the quietest conceivable [...]; our beds were in the attics, and during the night we had scarcely thrown down the French n...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I never visited this dungeon without repeating from Young’s “Night Thoughts”, often in my pocket, the just words, ”Dreadful post of observation! Darker every hour.”' ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945‘A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity “des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at “L...Edmund Blunden Albert SatteauunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘At Watten station [...] I sauntered by the canal then settled myself with my book in an empty cattle truck.' Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I had to thrust aside my “Cambridge Magazine” with Siegfried Sassoon’s splendid war on the war in it. ’ Edmund Blunden Siegfried SassoonTo Any Dead Officer (Who Left School for the Army ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'During this period my indebtedness to an eighteenth-century poet became enormous. At every spare moment I read Young’s “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945'One could find books in Thiepval; I am guilty of taking my copy of Ferdinand von Freiligrath's bombastic poems from that uncatalogued library.'Edmund Blunden Ferdinand FreiligrathunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Francis E. Pollard Victor AlexanderMinutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 15 Ja...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Edgar Castle Edgar Castle[A paper on the desirability of living in Reading ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Edith Goadby Edith Goadby[A paper on the desirability of living in the seco...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Henry Marriage Wallis[A paper on the desirability of living at some poi...Manuscript: Unknown
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.
Muriel Stevens St. John ErvineRobert's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[A paper on the desirability of living in the Eliz...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard[A paper on the desirability of living in the age ...Manuscript: Unknown
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 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Howard Smith Howard Smith[A paper on the desirability of living in the Sout...Manuscript: Unknown
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 r...		Margaret Dilks Bruce DilksMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
    20th III 1935
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Anon member of the XII Book Club Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Fe...Manuscript: Notebook


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