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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Isabel Taylor Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Elsie Harrod Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Bruce Dilks Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Howard Smith Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies, where the effect is ...Samuel Johnson James HammondLove ElegiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read Meredith's "Love in the Valley"? It got me, I wept; I remembered that poetry existed.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithLove in the ValleyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "Worldly Women" wh. are coming out in a book. I found faul...Leslie Stephen Lucy CliffordLove letters of a worldly womanPrint: Book
1900-1945‘J. E. Patterson has written a book around Minehead, perhaps "Fishers of the Sea", or no—"Love Like the Sea"; which I liked. Perhaps you might. He has power, but an a...Ivor Bertie Gurney John Edward PattersonLove Like the SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Love of a NationManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodLove on the DolePrint: Book
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Edward CarpenterLove's Coming of AgePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes Edward CarpenterLove's Coming of AgePrint: Book
1800-1849'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontLove's Cure, or the Martial MaidPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareLove's Labour's LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!'Mary Groom L.E. LandonLove's Last LessonUnknown
1900-1945'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with su...Arnold Bennett Upton SinclairLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'Mary Shelley John FletcherLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book


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