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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
 
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller Beauty and the BeastPrint: Book
1850-1899'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all his researches into the annals of the twelfth century...J. R. Green Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you,...J. Bryce Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you,...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBecketUnknown
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man...Virginia Woolf Guy ChapmanBeckfordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of Lord John [?Bedford] -- he said he had read his pref...Henry Brougham Bedford Letters vol 3Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher Samuel V. BracherBees and the PoetsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Enjoyed Bees in Amber.'Albert Ruskin Cook John Oxenham (pseud.)Bees in Amber: A Little Book of Thoughtful VersePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Katherine S. Evans Vita Sackville-WestBees on the LandUnknown
1900-1945'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in October 1911 when he happened to buy a book of new ...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroBefore Dawn: Poems and ImpressionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Alexander WerthBefore MunichPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...'Thomas Green John GayBeggar's OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay showed him "The Beggar's Opera," his Grace's observ...Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry John GayBeggar's Opera, TheUnknown
1850-1899'April. Sustained interest'Sarah Good Lily DougallBeggars All: A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then...Elizabeth Barrett Cornelius MathewsBehemoth, a Legend of the MoundbuildersPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Vaughan WilkinsBeing Met TogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable ...Henry James Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful nov...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at a...Henry James Howard SturgisBelchamberPrint: In proof


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