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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'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the ...Charles Stansfield Herbert George WellsFirst and Last Things. Confession of Faith and Rul...Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 19, 1832: "Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the whole of the first & Second pythian odes....Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst and second Pythian odesPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Euclid First book of geometryPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Mary E. Robson First Book of Samuel, chapter 28 [The Witch of End...Print: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson SylvanusFirst Book of the IliadPrint: Book
1700-1799A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile...Mary Bacon Hannah GlasseFirst Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Pla...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Lord BernersFirst ChildhoodPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy,...Thomas Campbell Thomas CampbellFirst discourse upon PoetryUnknown
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Mary and Percy Shelley HoraceFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson St PeterFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'Cassandra Austen Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Book in Manuscript
1700-1799'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any account, & am very glad that I did not leave it in your p...Martha Lloyd Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1800-1849'I have just finished Hugh Miller's 'First Impressions of England and its people'. His argument at the conclusion of the seventeenth chapter is excellent; he concludes ...Eliza Ellis Hugh MillerFirst Impressions of England and its PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding James AgateFirst NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 27, 1831: "I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter."Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Olympian OdePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownFirst PrinciplesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "I have looked over the first Pythian again. The finest passage in it, is longer than Synesius’s ninth hymn"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Pythian OdePrint: Book
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 unknownFirst Year OutPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Rosamund Wallis Gertrude E. JenningsFive Birds in a CagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Victor Alexander Gertrude E. JenningsFive Birds in a CagePrint: Book


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