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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most other people (whom I have met with, at least), I shra...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book
1850-1899'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thirty years. On hearing of Mr Hallam's last days he re...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'I have read Tennyson's "In Memoriam," or rather part of it; I closed the book when I had got about ha...		Charlotte Brontë Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book
1900-1945'... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall". Talking about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny...Clive Staples Lewis Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam and other poemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Home to tea. Read some of Fratesi's [sic] "In Provincia" which I think is very good. Awfully cold.' Gertrude Bell Mario PratesiIn provincia: novelle e bozzettiPrint: 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 H.V. MortonIn Search of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


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Edgar Castle H. V. MortonIn Search of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsIn the Days of the CometPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own task till lunchtime. I began my observations in the aft...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells In the Days of the CometPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Flora Annie SteelIn the Guardianship of GodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "In heart of Africa".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Adolphus Frederick Albert Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin In the Heart of AfricaPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones George Alfred HentyIn the Reign of TerrorPrint: Book
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...H.V. MortonIn the Steps of the MasterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Howard Smith Heinrich HeineIn the TempleUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lu...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of CauteretzUnknown
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists ...Arnold Bennett Henry Woodd NevinsonIn the Valley of TophetPrint: Book
1900-1945'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems that Edward had sent me in Malta: "Only thin sm...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyIn Time of the Breaking of NationsPrint: Book
1850-1899Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantIn TrustPrint: Book, Unknown


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