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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 Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

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The following essays wer...		Reginald H. Robson R. H. RobsonRupert BrookeUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief introduction to the ...		Victor Alexander Unidentified member of the XII Book Club Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[A brief introduction to the brothers [sic] Zweig ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Francis E. Pollard Stefan ZweigThe Right to Heresy: Castellio against CalvinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Arnold ZweigDe Vriendt Goes HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Janet Rawlings Stefan Zweig‘Die Entdeckung Eldorados’, from Sternstunden der ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'Siegfried Sassoon Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativePrint: Book
1900-1945'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's...Siegfried Sassoon Robert CurzonVisits to Monasteries in the LavantPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic] Harrison's novel which he has just published, a st...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Frederic HarrisonTheophano: The Crusade of the Tenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace Wilfrid Scawen BluntThe Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addr...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace LightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book cal...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Ralph MilbankeAstarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord ByronManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, a...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.'Douglas Herbert Bell [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 191...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians...Douglas Herbert Bell [Army Communique]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italic...Douglas Herbert Bell Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty ...Douglas Herbert Bell George William Russell"Shadows and Lights"Print: Unknown


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