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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
 
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]JeremiahPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Charles Stansfield Hugh WalpoleJeremyPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Edgar Castle Hugh WalpoleJeremy at CralePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.' ...Claire Clairmont Alexandre L. B. RobineauJerome Pointu: ComediePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeJerusalemUnknown
1800-1849'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such ...Thomas Carter Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'Thomas Green Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moses MendelssohnJerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und JudenthumPrint: Book
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I...Hilary Spalding Edwyn Robert BevanJerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on...Print: Book
1850-1899I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantJerusalem: Its History and HopePrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jessica's First PrayerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Hesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories ...children and mothersHesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I see a quotation in "Jesting Pilate" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: "It is as though there was some inherent vice in Japanese art which made the ge...Thomas Kitching M ArlenJesting PilatePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Terrot Reaveley GloverJesus of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerJeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.'Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweJew of Malta, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "By Greta Bridge" instead of the Milton I ought to be reading! But it is lovely, & very cleverly written & interesting.'Hilary Spalding Louis GoodrichJew of Malta, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'A letter in the "Jewish Chronicle" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending "Above All Nations".'Vera Brittain Jewish ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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