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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
 
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Elsie Harrod Robert Falcon Scott[Some or all of Captain Scott’s last letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30

R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” wh...		Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlings[Some readings anent the development of painting a...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House Feb 27 1931
R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
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6 The subject of the evening Persian Art wa...		Celia Burrow [some unspecified Persian lyrics]Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent...Ellen Weeton [songs and music]Unknown
1700-1799'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course: but He prudent Creature, insisted on my burning it,...Hester Lynch Thrale Marco Capello[sonnet about Piozzi]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945‘Well … our gallant regiment … have been in it a damn sight more than ever they expected, by the Lord. We are hardened veterans, fed up to the neck, muddy to the eyes...Ivor Bertie Gurney Robert Bridges[Sonnet on Lord Kitchener]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him howeve...Hester Lynch Thrale Giuseppe Pecio[sonnet to Voltaire]Unknown
1700-1799'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him howeve...Lord Sandys Giuseppe Pecio[sonnet to Voltaire]Unknown
1700-1799'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first ...William Wordsworth Charlotte Smith[sonnets (two)]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]
2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc & hi...		Muriel Stevens Hilaire Belloc[sonnets and other verses]Unknown
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proceeded ... throughout 1805-06, and apparentlly less i...William Wordsworth Michaelangelo [sonnets]Unknown
1800-1849Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been...Dorothy Wordsworth John Milton[sonnets]Unknown
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Hannah More John Milton[Sonnets]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from...Elizabeth Edminson John Keats[sonnets]Print: Book
1900-1945'To conclude some 15 sonnets were read & recited by members & much enjoyed'members of XII Book Club [sonnets]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I am a week late in thanking you for your parcel and letter … and specially for the book of sonnets which has been constantly either in my pocket or hand. It is just...Charles Hamilton Sorley Anon Anon[sonnets]Print: Book
1800-1849Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806.William Wordsworth Michaelangelo Buonarotti[sonnet]Unknown
1700-1799'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the tr...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]Print: Book
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book


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