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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
 
1850-1899'I am also reading Clough's ''Life''. He was as religious as Lamb at the same age.'Emma Darwin Blanche Clough?Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selec...Print: Book
1900-1945'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi...Blanche Ridges Blanche Ridges[paper on William Morris and socialism]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'Blanche Ridges Blanche Ridges[paper on Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Solitary Summer']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from the two volumes which had just completed the rota'.Blanche Ridges Blanche Ridges[paper on Augustine Birrell's Essays]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoint...Blanche Ridges Blanche Ridges[paper on Emerson]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'John Ruskin Blanche RooseveltLife and Reminiscences of Gustave DorePrint: Book
1850-1899I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you...Robert Louis Stevenson Bob StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assem...Catherine Talbot Bodmer Johann JakobNoah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In ...Print: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusEmancypantkiPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusLalkaPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusFaraonPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusPalac i ruderaPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusPowracajaca falaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'"This is my beloved Prus," Konrad [sic] pointed at a volume of "Emancypantski". I can read it over and over again." When I laid my hand on "Kazimierz Wielki", he sai...

Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusEmancypantkiPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Bonamy DobreeModern Prose StylePrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Bonetus de LatesAnnuli ... super astrologiamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and ...Samuel Johnson Bonnell ThorntonOde on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient B...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Boyd Cable (pseud.)'Quick Work'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey Bracebridge HemyngJack HarkawayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.'Robert Louis Stevenson Bracebridge HemyngBondage of BrandonPrint: Book


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