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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
 
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine[spiritual autobiography]Unknown
1600-1699She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accompanied by the 'reading of some spiritual book' (presu...Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury unknown[spiritual books]Print: Book
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Frederick W. Farrar[St Winifred's School Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has ...		Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks[Statement of accounts of the XII Book Club at 16 ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road. 12.12.42
Harry Stevens in the Chair

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read & sign...		Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks[statement of accounts of the XII Book Club at Dec...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
牋牋C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secretary presented a stat...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Elizabeth T. Alexander[Statement of accounts of the XII Book Club Octobe...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, Elm Road.
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M Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last were read and signed.

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3...		Victor Alexander Victor Alexander[Statement of accounts of the XII Book Club up to ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Broomfield, Cressingham Rd., 14.XI.33.
George H. S. Burrow in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

2. [...]At th...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Elizabeth Alexander[Statement of accounts of the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerne...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1900-1945'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa...Frederick Willis Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes associ...Edward Ezard Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd...Lionel Fraser Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci...Bryan Forbes Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp...Louis Battye Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa...Frederick Willis Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes assoc...Edward Ezard Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised ...Paul Fletcher Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the nearest any of us got to knowing about the honour sys...A.J. Mills Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd...Lionel Fraser Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical


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