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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery anon Little Katey and Jolly JimPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen LiedPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent to him by General Conway, on Sir W. Hamilton's mistre...Horace Walpole anon 'Attitudes -- A Sketch'Unknown
1700-1799'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imitation of Sterne that has ever appeared. I finished ...Joseph Hunter Anon Fragments in the Manner of SternePrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.'Joseph Hunter Anon Fragments in the Manner of SternePrint: Book
1700-1799'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held that day. It is a very keen satire on fast days in g...Joseph Hunter Anon Long Faces; Amusement for Starving MechanicsPrint: Advertisement
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defe...John Wilson Croker anon 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'Unknown
1800-1849Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'. Arabella Moulton-Barrett anon Whim and Contradiction: A TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more ...Elizabeth Barrett anon Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral...Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf anon mock epitaph for Virginia WoolfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...Alfred Tennyson anon 12-canto poem on battle of WaterlooManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:] 'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House." I think that is ...Catherine Talbot and familyanon The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Maga...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 10 November 1851:

'I have now read "The Fair Carew." It seems to me a delightful work and of genuine metal. Whether it ...		Charlotte Brontë anon The Fair Carew; Or, Husbands and WivesUnknown
1850-1899'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'Robert Louis Stevenson anon [Review of 'An Inland Voyage']Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'T. C. Elliott anon Arden of Faversham
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'Sylvanus Reynolds anon Arden of Faversham
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'George Burrow anon Arden of Faversham Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Anon [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eatin...Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Anon The lay of the hunted pigUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		George Burrow Anon Sir HughUnknown


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