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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

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Reginald H. Robson Dorothy BrainHors d’OeuvresManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen it is an admirable piece of work & I congratulate y...Arnold Bennett unknownHortulus AnimePrint: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...Samuel Pepys John EvelynHortus HyemalisManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I'm taking up nursing, and I thought I would get a good inside knowledge from a book of this kind. (Hospital Nurse: Swinburne)'Doreen SwinburneHospital NursePrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Henley, Sketches III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan. IV As a whole. VII Both quatrains. VIII line 2. Extemporising a becoming gloom. I...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and PortraitsPrint: Probably proof.
1850-1899'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits.Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy.
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyHospital SonnetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Vicky BaumHotel BerlinPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding Francis ThompsonHound of Heaven, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHound of the Baskervilles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauHour and the Man, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Leslie StephenHours in a LibraryPrint: Book
1850-1899Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenHours in a Library, No. XII. − MacaulayPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding A.A. MilneHouse at Pooh Corner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...Joseph Conrad Thomas ReedHouse Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Ste...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Noel StreatfeildHouse in Cornwall, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I think it's the only one of Mary W's books I'll like, a...Hilary Spalding Mary WebbHouse in Dormer Forest, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Edward WoodwardHouse of TerrorPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Household Education" which relate my own experience. It...Charlotte Bronte Harriet MartineauHousehold EducationPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain Household MedicinePrint: Book


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