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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'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Donald Cargill Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Donald HankeyStudent in Arms, APrint: Book
1900-1945'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i...Clive Staples Lewis Donald HankeyA Student in ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ...Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Don't Worry'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.'Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Romance'Print: Serial / periodical
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 Donald RossMD - Doctor of MurderPrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Donato GiannottiDella repubblica fiorentinaPrint: 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 Dora Olive ThompsonThat Girl GingerPrint: Book
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
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 Dornford YatesAdele and CoPrint: Book
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 Dornford YatesAnd Five were FoolishPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'She [mother] introduced me to Dornford Yates, and I devoured him when I was about 16.'Hilary Spalding Dornford YatesvariousPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[essay on Hampton Court Gardens]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[on old Berkshire Ballads]Manuscript: Unknown
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'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Dorothy Brain Dorothy Brain[On T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Victor Alexander Dorothy Brain[Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Victor Alexander Dorothy Brain[Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Dorothy ConyerunknownPrint: Book


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