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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'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads, Second SeriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been reading in library copies... Swinburne's "Erechtheus" which is another tragedy on Greek lines like "Atalanta", though not so good in my opinion.'Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneErechtheus: A TragedyPrint: 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 Alice Duer MillerWhite Cliffs, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discusses his reading of his copy of his sister Alice James...Henry James Alice JamesThe Diary of Alice JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Alice JamesAlice James: Her Brothers -- Her JournalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the las...		Alice Joselin Alice Joselin[biographical essay on William Blake]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Alice Joselin Alice Joselin[a biographical study of the Brontë family]Manuscript: Unknown
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 Alice JoselinExperiment in EducationManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Alice Joselin Alice Joselin[some comments on Peter Pan]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice MeynellPreludesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice Meynell"To A Daisy"Print: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...Alfred Rawlings Alice Meynell Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Alice PerrinIdolatryPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Alice Perrin Print: Book
1850-1899How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown ... [her poems] to an American friend of the family, ...Thomas Thompson Alice Thompsonunknown poemsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

1. An apology for absence was read from Mr. & Mrs. Joselyn. 		Margaret Dilks Alice and Arnold JoselinNote of apologies for absence from a meetingManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Sat. No letter. No parcel ... read Mrs Wiggs of Cabbage Patch.'William Thomas Alice Caldwell RiceMrs Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Maud PennellPennell of the Afghan FrontierPrint: 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 Alice Maud PennellPennell of the Afghan FrontierPrint: Book


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