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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
 
1800-1849'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to dea...Betsey and Eugenia Wynne [unknown][trial of Governor Wale]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Mary Shelley [unknown][trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Sylvanus A. Reynolds T. B. Clark[Triolets]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of him, in order to form his play from it'.Samuel Johnson [Turkish History]Print: Book
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [members of the XII Book Club][two essays entitled 'A Vignette of Local History'...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Recd two Papers this morning, and was like the Ass between the bundles of Hay, not knowing which to begin to read first, however I even thought it was as well to begin i...Robert Sharp n/a[two newspapers] OR The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with Mrs. Stowe, in the N[orth]. A[merican]. R[eview]. I ...Henry James Harriet Beecher Stowe[two or three works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of "Thucydides", the part, the latter part of the second book, containing the funeral oration by ...William Windham Thucydides[Two orations]Print: Unknown
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. ...Henry Marriage Wallis George Meredith[two poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The suppression of all newspapers left the universal craving for news unsatisfied, and the daily paper was replaced by short type-written notes which were secretly passe...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknown[type-written note]Manuscript: Type-written notes.
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an ess...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Babbington Macaulay[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an ess...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

...

George Burrow [Un-named modern American works in verse]
1700-1799Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his...Mary Berry Mackintosh[unidentified "accounts of hs proposed lectures on...Print: Book
1700-1799'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing od...James Boswell Giuseppe Baretti[unidentified 'Dialogues']Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."Henry James Grace Norton[unidentified articles]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a child (part of research for her 1907 book on the favouri...Henry James various[unidentified book of fairy stories]Print: Book
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. Edith B. Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters]Print: Book
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. Howard Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters]Print: Book


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