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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'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'Charles Darwin Francis Bond HeadGallop: Rapid journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarterly Review, in the form of criticism on my Life of C...John Galt Thomas Dunham WhitakerGalt's Life of Cardinal WolseyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinGambettaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'Mary Shelley James ShirleyGamester, ThePrint: 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

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6. C....

Mary Pollard George William RussellGandhiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Katherine Evans Anatole FranceGarden of Epicures, ThePrint: Book
Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'. [Here the three somewhat insisted upon proving to...anon Garden of HeavenPrint: 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 Ernest Charles Temple ThurstonGarden of ResurrectionPrint: Book
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 Algernon BlackwoodGarden of Survival, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Charles E. Stansfield Rabindranath TagoreGardener, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873): 'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "from the author." I don't think it is mere perversit...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred TennysonGarethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clarke Francois RabelaisGargantua and PantagruelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me see. (Then, after reading it all through very carefully) - But we know all about this. They sent round leaflets telling me about it. They only thing is they didn'... Gas mask posterPrint: Poster
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville". perhaps y...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeGaston de BlondevillePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterGaston de LatourPrint: Book
1900-194510 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.Virginia Woolf Ezra PoundGaudier-Brzeska. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945'I stayed up late reading "The Gay Galliard" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.'Hilary Spalding Margaret IrwinGay Galliard, ThePrint: Book


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