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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
 
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Roman History]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or opposed to wild beasts & wonder how the populace could de...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Roman history]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson [romances of chivalry]Print: Book
1700-1799'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'.George Crabbe [Romances]Print: Book
1800-1849'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[romance]Manuscript: 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][romantic fiction]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, my dear Gardiner [...] I cannot very well belong to t...Joseph Conrad [Rule Book of the National Club]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops [unknown][Russian literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone ...Anthony Eden [Russian novels]Print: Book
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...

Mary Pollard Charles E. Stansfield[Safety First]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.John Ridges [Sagas]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.Frederick Edminson [Sagas]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.Elizabeth Edminson [Sagas]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.Walter S. Rowntree [Sagas]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. [Sagas]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom Pope says ?Great souls there are, who touch?d with w...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][Satire VI?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Jonathan Swift[satires]Print: Book


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