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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
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson Tom HughesAlfred the GreatPrint: Book
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford Daniel FenningAlgebraPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the whole my experience of being read to by my parents was not a success. Alice in Wonderland was spoiled by my constant habit of asking questions and my intol...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Charles Lutwidge DodsonAlice Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Reginald Robson William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Alice for Short". Stayed in all day'Verena Vera Pennefather William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1850-1899'"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Revised all day and was really sick of it. Got very stale & ended up by reading "Alice in Wonderland"! Much more refreshing than O.T.'Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Francis E. Pollard Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Alice JamesAlice James: Her Brothers -- Her JournalPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves bri...Virginia Woolf Viola MeynellAlice Meynell. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mary E. JamesAlice Ottley: First Headmistress of the Worcester ...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Lewis Carroll (pseud.)Alice Through the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Ethel C. Stevens Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice through the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderland]: "To my surprise, mother entered quite briskly i...Alice Foley Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Lewis Carroll (pseud.)Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Francis E. Pollard Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Janet Rawlings Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Reginald H. Robson Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Victor Alexander Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book


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