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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
 
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Feat of Journalism, AManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Ernest E. Unwin [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Alfred Rawlings [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Charles Evans [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Walter Rowntree [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Elizabeth Ann Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, ...Howard Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed until later in the evening.' [the letter was about th...Ernest E. Unwin [a member of the XII book Club][open letter to the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence ...Katherine Edwards [a member of the XII Book Club][paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence ...Elizabeth Ann Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'Mary Shelley [anon (ed)]Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book Club [anon. member of XII Book Club]Scandalous Affair, AManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley [anon.]Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdo...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 [anon.]Thousand Nights and One Night, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith [anon.]Three Months in Ireland. By an English ProtestantPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin [anon.]Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdo...
1800-1849'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley [anon.]RhodaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal Amoureux'. She pronounced best and I translated best....James Boswell and Louisa [anon.]Journal AmoureuxPrint: Book
1900-1945'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At last we understood what was meant when, during Scriptu...Stan Dickens [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1900-1945'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained expl...Mary Bertenshaw [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book


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