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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
 
1900-1945If you ever pass the free library I should pop in as most of the illustrated weeklies have these maps each week. While on the subject of libraries — I think you wou...Arthur Morris Arnold BennettHelen of the High HandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Arnold GingrichCast Down the LaurelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 64, Northcourt Avenue. 24th. Sept. 1945.
Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
Arnold Joselin Arnold Joselin[a brief outline of the history of science]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Arnold Joselin Arnold JoselinSerial TimeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Arnold Joselin Arnold Joselin[on Matthew Arnold’s work as an educationalist]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the keener / Mood shall be the more / As our might lessens...Edward Morgan Forster Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History (vol I)Print: Book
1900-1945'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.'Vita Sackville-West Arnold ZweigThe Case of Sergeant GrishaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Arnold ZweigDe Vriendt Goes HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.George Eliot [pseud] Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren[on the XVth Century]Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].' Virginia Woolf Arsene HoussayeConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Artemus WardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Arther Everett ShipleyMinor Horrors of War, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-BrockWilliam Morris: his Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of "The Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a...Arthur Conan Doyle Print: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Arthur Conan Doyle Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Very stormy wind + heavy showers too wet to walk about. So bridge. Read A Sign of Four by Conan Doyle.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of FourPrint: Book


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