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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'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 Hugh McHugh (pseud.)John HenryPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-GouldJohn HerringPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry ShorthouseJohn Inglesant
1850-1899'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of...Janet Courtney J. Henry ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.' Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how h...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but becaus...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Joseph Henry ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the s...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinJohn Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Crit...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing and spontaneous person.'Charles Grove Robert Louis StevensonJohn KnoxManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonJohn Knox and the Controversy about Female RulePrint: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. ...Virginia Woolf John SummersonJohn Nash, Architect to King George IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul [unknown]John O' London'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd n/aJohn O' London's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

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4. The subject of the eveni...		Cyril Langford R. H. WilenskyJohn Ruskin: An Introduction to further Study of h...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upst...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJohn Silence, Physician ExtraordinaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'Edward Morgan Forster Walter Raleigh, ed.Johnson on ShakesparePrint: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Henry Marriage Wallis E.V. LucasJoints in the ArmourPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book


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