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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'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Sent a PC home. Read "The Witness for the Defence" by AEW Mason.'William Thomas A. E. W. MasonThe Witness for the DefencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Nil. Read "Courtship of Morris ——" by AEW Mason.'William Thomas A. E. W. MasonThe Courtship of Maurice BucklerPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster A. Felix WedgwoodThe Shadow of a TitanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Margaret Dilks A. G. MacdonellEngland Their EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland?. The other book...Leslie Stephen A. J. BalfourFoundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.' Emma Darwin A. J. BalfourThe Foundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met...George Gordon, Lord Byron A. L. CastellanMoeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de...Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. T...Edward Morgan Forster A. N. WhiteheadScience and the Modern WorldPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, are brief manuscript characterizations [by Harvey] of ...Gabriel Harvey A. P. GasserHistoriarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi EpitomePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards being found asleep together, with Allenby's remark ...Edward Morgan Forster A. P. WavellAllenby: Soldier and StatesmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'What a nice letter from Peterhead!'Robert Louis Stevenson A. R. Hackett[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonStars and AtomsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They deg...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonThe Nature of the Physical WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Alice Joselin A. S. NeillThat Dreadful SchoolPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have just been reading it."Henry James A. W. KinglakeEothenPrint: 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...

Mary S. Stansfield A. W. LawrenceLawrence by his FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh...Patricia Beer A.A. MilneWinnie the PoohPrint: Book
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 A.A. MilneWinne-the-PoohPrint: Book
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 A.A. MilneHouse at Pooh Corner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff A.A. MilneunknownPrint: Book


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