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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'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article ha...R.H. Patterson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was r...Colonel Moncrieff George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'Lord Brougham George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in prin...Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Elizabeth Marriage Battle of Otterburn, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterBaxterianaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844: 'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several favourite poems -- the "Invocation" [...] & "Sprin...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas WestwoodBeads from a RosaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsBealbyPrint: 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...

Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.]Beasts and Super-BeastsPrint: 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...

Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.]Beasts and Super-BeastsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one, "Beatrix", in the feuilleton of the "Siecle", day ...Robert Browning Honore de BalzacBeatrix ou les Amours ForcesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding P.C. WrenBeau GestePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding P.C. WrenBeau SabreurPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonBeautiful Years, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Beauty'. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the poem across three pages with a series of asterisks.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisBeautyPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved


[...]

8[.] Essays w...

Alfred Rawlings Alfred RawlingsBeautyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Celia Burrow John MasefieldBeautyManuscript: UnknownUnknown


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