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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety of information mixed with so much amusement, than the...Joseph Hunter Johann BeckmannA History of Inventions and DiscoveriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Al...Edward Morgan Forster F. A. WrightA History of Later Greek LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Justin McCarthyA History of our Own TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry George LiddellA History of RomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Reginald H. Robson Robert Howard HodgkinA History of the Anglo-SaxonsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles James Fox, Lord HollandA history of the early part of the reign of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles James, Lord Holland FoxA history of the early part of the reign of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'It bears marks of being written by an English Tory High Churchman, the last very abundantly, but there is much in it very striking & elevating. Above all it holds an ade...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Samuel WilberforceA History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Am...Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gerald Brenan, 3 October 1926: 'Ralph said he had read enough of your novel [A Holiday by the Sea] to perceive a masterpiece.' ...Ralph Partridge Gerald BrenanA Holiday by the SeaUnknown
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Donne, 'A Hymne to God the Father'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John DonneA Hymne to God the FatherUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham. Elizabeth Lyttelton Dr DillinghamA Hymne to our CreatorUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847: 'Permit me to thank you for your present, which reached me yesterda...Charlotte Bronte Leigh HuntA Jar of Honey from Mount HyblaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MooreA Journal during a residence in France from August...Print: Book
1800-1849'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dry'.'John Cole WilliamsonA Journal of a naturalistPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William NicholsonA Journal of Natural Philosophy, ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's "Plague." Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part is where he describes the reception of the news of th...Harriet Martineau Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me m...Elizabeth Barrett Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Victor Alexander Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague YearManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'It is comical to read Swift's journal along with Maurice, so undoubting and passionate, angry and affectionate.'Emma Darwin Jonathan SwiftA Journal to StellaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel HearneA Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's B...Print: Book


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