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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Spenser; but to what purpose except my own private sat...Thomas Edwards Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:] 'The reading of Spenser's Sonnets was the first occasion of my writing that sp...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Edmund Spenser?ProthalamionUnknown
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole...Clive Staples Lewis Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queen'Sarah Good Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Edmund Spenser [?][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligenc...Vita Sackville-West Edmund WilsonThrough the Embassy Window; Harold NicolsonPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the principles of its construction is both 'entertaining & i...Arnold Bennett Edmund and Jules de GoncourtRenee MauperinPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Edmund [??] Barrow[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colo...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore Edna FerberA Peculiar TreasurePrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Pr...Queen Victoria Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter ...Princess Beatrice Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book
1900-1945"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted ...Viscountess Rhondda Edna LyallnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor gam...Gerald Moore Edna LyallTo Right the WrongPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Edna LyallAutobiography of a SlanderPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'In the afternoon came Barishnikov with his daughter Alexandra.... He has lent me a book called I Married a Russian. ' [538] 'I Married a Russian has charmed us all. An...Vere Hodgson Edna Alfredivna SinelnikovaI Married a Russian: Letters from KharkovPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


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Charles E. Stansfield Edna St. Vincent MillayRenascence and Other PoemsUnknown


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