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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'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'Betty Shaw [Wesley?][hymn book]Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C....

Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.]The one dimensional mindPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C....

Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.][One or more unidentified poems]Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C....

Victor Alexander Æ [pseud.][One or more unidentified poems]Unknown
1900-1945'I read "[The] Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' Joseph Conrad (Basil) Macdonald HastingsThe Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts Print: Book
1850-1899'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case you don?t know) aloud this morning, and I had a hand a...Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him the book to read and he is enthusiastic about it.' ...Frank Swinnerton Arnold BennettHow to Become an AuthorPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.) It ought to be Helen with the High Hand. I really...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettHelen with the High HandManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by th...Arnold Bennett Arthur Conan DoyleThe British Campaign in France and FlandersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reached me yesterday. I sat up with it of course. There ...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsFigures of Several CenturiesPrint: Book
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens B.W. Proctor'The Sea'Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849"A work of Dr Carpenter's,begun but never finished,called "Notes and Observations on the Gospel history", which his catechuments used in class, first put me on this track...Harriet Martineau Dr CarpenterNotes and Observations on the Gospel HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849"Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this was enough,putting all predisposition out of the quest...Harriet Martineau Dr CarpenterArticles: Mental and Moral Philosophy & Systemic E...Print: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson(probably) The Purser's Shilling an earlier versio...Manuscript: typescript (see additional information
1850-1899'I am deep in ''Maurice'', and if I could keep to my resolution of never even trying to understand him, I should quite enjoy the book.'Emma Darwin Frederick Maurice, (ed.)The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice. Chiefly tol...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?'Joseph Conrad Henri GhéonNos DirectionsPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a little too merely facetious, Seems as if the begga...Arnold Bennett J.M. BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that immediately you have finished it you begin again, No ...Arnold Bennett J.M. BarrieMargaret Ogilvy/by her sonPrint: Book


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