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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'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
    Muriel Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & ...		Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks[Report on the finances of the XII Book Club, Dec ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'Thomas Cape unknown[report on trial]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for al...Sydney Smith William, Baron Stowell Scott[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][reports on education in Prussia]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for 'A Little Less than Gods']Print: Book
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier'...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for the book that became 'A little Less ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo Meredith as a whole & also two pieces of his poetry. ...Walter Rowntree Walter Rowntree[resume of Meredith's 'Diana of the Crossways']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle &...Walter Rowntree Walter Rowntree[resume of Sartor Resartus]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A delightful 2 weeks mail began to come in at noon. Many Hindustani books, etc. Reuters very interesting. Italy on the verge. 7 ops. in the day.'Albert Ruskin Cook [Reuters cables]Manuscript: Telegraph cablegram
1900-1945'750 miles due E. of Ascension Island. Wireless Reuters as usual. America in State of War. W. drive still continues. Close on St. Quentin ... Finished Stitt's Tropical Di...Albert Ruskin Cook [Reuters cables]Manuscript: Letter, telegram
1800-1849'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hi...James Hogg David Laing[review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'T...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Tyas Cook[review in Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith James McIntosh[Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of P...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith Edward Copleston[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Le Livre — i.e. Joseph Knight — Has reviewed my books aright.'Robert Louis Stevenson Knight Joseph[Review in Le Livre]Print: Serial / periodical


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