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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
 
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon  Print: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Xenophon  Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from Macaulay's Dindorf." Many MS dates of reading betwee...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton ...Print: Book
1900-1945"CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it since Harrow days, (at school) aged 16!" Written by Paul...Charles Philips Trevelyan Xenophon AnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphle...George Grote Xenophon  Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved


[...]

Victor Alexander XII Book Club Book Selection Committee [List of twelve books proposed for purchase by the...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved


[...]

Victor Alexander XII Book Club Book Selection Committee [Subsidiary list of books to be considered for pur...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what...Samuel Johnson Zachariah MudgeSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages; with what...Samuel Johnson Zachariah Mudge[notes on the Psalms]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Joshua Reynolds Zachariah MudgeSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Samuel Johnson Zachariah MudgeSermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as by the manner of its writing.'Joseph Conrad Zofia Kossak-SzczuckaPozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Remi...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 ...		Ethel C. Stevens [a child of thirteen] [a letter to John Ruskin]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 2nd. Dec. 1943 Muriel Stevens in the chair.
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed.
2. The treasurer reported on the clu...		Members of the XII Book Club[a Committee of the XII Book Club comprising Knox Taylor, Muriel Stevens and Rosamund Wallis] [An alternative list of books proposed for purchas...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
4. The Book list committee then submitted a list of twelve books with various alternatives. With one e...		Members of the XII Book Club[A committee of the XII Book Club] [List of books suggested for purchase by the XII B...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ...George Eliot (pseud) [a french artist] [his own poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe...Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searchi...William Wordsworth [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] AnonunknownPrint: Newspaper


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