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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 have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have scarcely been able to eat today.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeKing Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory.Print: Book
1850-1899'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devo...Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeTo my Mother.Print: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845: 'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there is a fine lyrical melody in it. When I tell you tha...Elizabeth Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845: 'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you for Edgar Poe's ballad .. of which [...] [italics]t...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1850-1899'[Conrad]admitted he was a Victorian, and that most of his reading was in nineteenth- century authors. He had [...] read Poe in French. He was fond of Emerson and Whit...Joseph Conrad Edgar Allan PoeunspecifiedPrint: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight Edgar Allen Poe Print: Book
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 Edgar and Mignon Castle[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 Edgar and Mignon Castle[Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan and the Jewels of OphirPrint: Book
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...

Howard Smith Edith GoadbyGlastonburyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
    19. II. 1935
    Ethel Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (...		Edith Goadby Edith Goadby[A paper on the desirability of living in the seco...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Edith Goadby Edith Goadby[An evocation of Old London]
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Edith Nesbit[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Edith Nesbit Print: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Edith Nesbit[probably] Five Children and ItPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Margaret Dilks Edith OlivierNight thoughts of a country landlady: being the pa...Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...'Edith Sitwell Edith SitwellpoemsUnknown
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Edith Sitwell[poetry]Print: Book


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