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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduously read the manuscript, corrected her spelling, and ...Francis Herbert Bradley Elinor GlynHalcyoneManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead...Richard Hillyer Half Hours With Best AuthorsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell, quoted in Knight?s "Half Hours, etc." It is now tw...Edward Charles KnightHalf Hours with the Best AuthorsPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed fo...

Un-named members of the XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyHall-MarkedUnknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] unknownHamburgische BriefePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc...Katherine Mansfield Anton ChekhovHamiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated" : "Sweet writing".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to me to be a clumsy addition to the plot".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of Hamlet during the earlier part of this scene is very...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the only thing deserving of much admiration in the speec...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character. His intellect is ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,/ And could of men distinguish, her election/ Ha...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a most admirable scene. The fooling of Osric is noth...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and sweat under a weary life'. Johnson wrote, "All the old ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often hit off such corrections, he would be entitled to th...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the s...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a ...John Cole William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward William ShakespeareHamletPrint: 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 William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book


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