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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'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a paper describing the historical setting of the poem...Ernest E. Unwin Henry Marriage Wallis[prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, ...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a][press cuttings - subject unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Guillemin[presumably astronomy text]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'George Eliot [pseud] Amans-Alexis Monteil[presumably one of his works on history of French ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
1800-1849'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.'John Cole [printed letter]Print: Sheet
1700-1799[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody t...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][prison discharge document]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][prison report]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Rosamund Wallis [unidentified male refugee in New York] [Private letter concerning ‘The Rhythm of Glass Wa...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Rosamund Wallis [unidentified male refugee in New York] [Private letter concerning ‘The Rhythm of Glass Wa...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and...George Gordon Lord Byron [N. N. A.] anon[private letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now com...Mary Augusta Ward Thomas Arnold[private papers]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.'John Cole Thomas Cape[private writing]Manuscript: Sheet, mss
1800-1849'My brother and I have read over together the Essay on Sheep their natural history &c which we so often talked about it is extremely curious and interesting and very orig...James and William HoggWilliam Hogg[prize essay on sheep, prize awarded by the Highla...Unknown
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Charles Darwin[probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle']Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'George Eliot (pseud) Flouren[probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Thucydides[probably History of the Peloponnesian War]Print: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton Thomas Babington Macaulay[probably The History of England from the Accessio...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Joseph Addison[probably The Spectator]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Kenneth Grahame[probably The Wind in the Willows etc]Print: Book


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