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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. K. Waschauer Leonardo da Vinci [unidentified 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. Francis E. Pollard Abraham Lincoln[unidentified letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40. Rosamund Walis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last ...		Roger Moore John Keats[unidentified letters]Print: Book
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript belonging to Saladin]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript of the 8th century A.D.]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript stamped by the 4th Timuri...Manuscript: Codex, illuminated manuscript
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Matilda Serao, in a copy apparently sent to him by Bou...Henry James Matilda Serao[unidentified novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to...Anne Romilly [unknown][unidentified novel]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'Mary Berry Roscoe[unidentified pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [G...Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends unknown[unidentified plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

[...]

5. H. M Wallis then gav...		Henry Marriage Wallis Rudyard Kipling[unidentified poems]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Reginald H. Robson W. H. Auden[unidentified poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
<...		Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. Chesterton[unidentified poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

...		Alfred Rawlings William Watson[unidentified poetry]Unknown
1700-1799John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious book, full of false views and unsound principles, ming...John Playfair Condorcet[unidentified posthumously-published work]Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three weeks ago spent three or four days with Manton Marble a...Henry James William James[Unidentified recently published writings]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Reginald H. Robson Saki[Unidentified short story]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

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6. Isabel Taylor re...		Violet Clough John Keats[Unidentified sonnets]Unknown
1800-1849'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew w...James Hogg [unidentified sonnet]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Elizabeth Boott, 24 January 1872: "I heard read in MS. the other evening a new story by Bret Harte (for the next Atlantic) better than anything in his 'sec...Henry James Francis Bret Harte[unidentified story]Manuscript: Unknown


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