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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Blanche Ridges Edwin ArnoldLight of AsiaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edwin AtherstoneThe Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and PaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edwin AtherstoneThe Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Pa...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Edwin GuestHistory of English Rhythms, APrint: Book
1850-1899'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho...Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji Edwin HodderCities of the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

[...]

6. Celia Burrow read Th...		Howard Smith Edwin Muir[A critical essay on Rudyard Kipling]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At the end of 1922, some unknown benefactor had given him a book, called Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know. Alan told his mother later this book had opened ...Alan Mathison Turing Edwin Tenney BrewsterNatural Wonders Every Child Should KnowPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve got a lovely little book—The Freudian Wish [Edwin B. Holt, 1915]—the pathology of thought, etc. Also a fine volume of poems by D. H. Lawrence.’Herbert Edward Read Edwin Bissell HoltThe Freudian WishPrint: Book
1900-1945Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive on the following pages: 90, 108-111, 116-7, 134-5, ...Vernon Lee Edwin S. GoodrichLiving Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evo...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, George Smith, 20 November 1851:

'I have glanced through the pages of another novel of yours — "Florence Sackville." ...		Charlotte Brontë Edwina Jane BurburyFlorence Sackville; or, Self-DependencePrint: Book
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I...Hilary Spalding Edwyn Robert BevanJerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on...Print: Book
1900-1945'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read the 'Nef' all through.'Arnold Bennett El?mir BourgesLa NefPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. D...		Muriel Stevens Eleanor AclandGood-bye for the Present: The story of two childho...Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I am about to read Mrs Roosevelt's autobiography. Apparently she was a very shy child, and everyone said she would never draw attention anywhere!'Vere Hodgson Eleanor RooseveltThe Lady of the White House: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "The Man in Grey" which is simply glorious. I must ry and get it.'Hilary Spalding Eleanor SmithMan in Grey, ThePrint: 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 Eleanor SmithLover's MeetingPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Eleanor SmithLife's a CircusPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] June [1914]. Life's Trivial Round
White Linen Nurse. Most bits rubbish
A passage perilous
Prisons & prisoners (suffragists)'		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Eleanor Hallowell AbbottWhite Linen Nurse, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Elémir BourgesLe Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs ContemporainesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Elémir Bourges(probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs t...Print: Book


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