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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?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall on November 24th. I?ve done four so far ? fairly ex...Benjamin Britten Gerard Manley Hopkins[religious poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious tracts]Print: Book, Broadsheet, Pamphlet, tracts
1850-1899Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind are not, however, allowed to remain without religiou...prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][Religious Tracts]Print: Book
1850-1899'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[remarks on 'North and South']Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me, and which I conjecture were written by your husban...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sam Greg[remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


5. Eight anonymo...

Janet Rawlings Helen Rawlings[reminiscences]Manuscript: Unknown
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.
...		Margaret Dilks Charles E. Stansfield[Reply to a letter of greetings from the XII Book ...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her fellow evacuees were fortunate to survive.'Vera Brittain [Report in the "Daily Mail"]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be wondered at. I have only read a wee bit of the repor... [Report into Insurance Companies' finances]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, L. P.: 19.ix.34.

1. We began our meeting by remembering George H. S. Burrow, until recently a member of our club. [...]
Victor Alexander Victor Alexander[Report of the Club’s excursion to Ufton Court, 7 ...Manuscript: Notebook
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 16...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'Tom Edwards [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, an...Tom Edwards [?] [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1850-1899'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Report of the Sanitary Commission]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the bus...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Sir William Batten Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Sir William Penn Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Sir John Minnes Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turni...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown


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