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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
 
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are passages in it that are more than "correct", and on the...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GibbonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Margaret L. LLoyd Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 ...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just been reading Mrs Asquith's book and I confess it leaves me bewildered. Unless my judgement has gone entirely astray, it is completely détraqué. She records con...Gertrude Bell Margot AsquithAutobiographyPrint: Book
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...Muriel Stevens Eric GillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]
Francis E. Pollard John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of "Mrs Delany". The first was an enormous treat, - perhaps the greatest in the...Harriet Martineau Augusta Llanover (ed.)Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granvile ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...]
Muriel Stevens Hsieh Ping-ying Autobiography of a Chinese girl: a genuine autobio...Print: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Edna LyallAutobiography of a SlanderPrint: Unknown
1900-1945‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesAutobiography of a Super-TrampPrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Benvenuto CelliniAutobiography of Benvenuto CelliniPrint: Book
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell E.B. Eastwick ['ed']Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations stud...R.B. Graham and Francis PollardMark Rutherford [pseud.]Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minis...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...
Albert Ruskin Cook Henry Morton StanleyAutobiography of Sir Henry Morton StanleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excit...Frederick J. Edminson Annie Wood BesantAutobiography, AnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Oliver Wendell HolmesAutocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1800-1849'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from M...Jane Baillie Welsh Various AutographsManuscript: Autographs
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Philippe Quinault, 'Autre'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Philippe QuinaultAutrePrint: libretto



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