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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945(1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style — lovely paper, strong boards, and — aren't you envious — not one but two bits of ...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


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[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales (General Prologue)Unknown
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: 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 Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, The
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Canti CarnascialeschiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.'William Soutar Karl MarxCapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Elizabeth T. Alexander William Fryer HarveyCaprimulgusPrint: Book
1900-1945'He works from 2 to 10,and about 9 .he always goes to the lavatory. He was sitting there reading "Aero" when the sirens went, so he dashed down to the shelter, but before... UnknownCaptain Aero ComicPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Rafael SabatiniCaptain BloodPrint: Book
1900-1945'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, and in a style I like. No superfluous verbiage.' Gerald Moore Harold BrighouseCaptain ShapelyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better than ever. Odd how again, though, the woman is more...Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his invention - like the wife in "The Captain's Doll".'Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.' Arnold Bennett Rudyard KiplingCaptains CourageousPrint: Book
1900-1945'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. Some of them I've seen before in Mags. but not many....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyCapturesPrint: 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 Charles Norris WilliamsonCar of Destiny and Its Errand in SpainPrint: Book
1700-1799'[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the language charming! divine harmony, beams in every l...Anna Larpent William MasonCaractacusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... "Caractac...Mountstuart Elphinstone [William] [Mason]CaractacusPrint: Book
1700-1799'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; ...James Boswell William MasonCaractacus: A Dramatic PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage...Amelia Opie John NewtonCardiphoniaPrint: Book


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