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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
 
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trad...Lord George Bentinck Manchester Monthly Trade CircularPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radi...Anne Lister Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and po...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Mandeville'Mary Shelley William GodwinMandevillePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'Mary Shelley William GodwinMandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinMandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'Mary Shelley William GodwinMandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville'Mary Shelley William GodwinMandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in E...Print: Book
1900-1945'"I am going to call attention in this department," it ran, "to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - book to read to-day on the Abyssinian crisis is "Mandoa...May Lamberton-Becker Winifred HoltbyMandoa, Mandoa!Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronManfredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Voice of the Second Spirit' 'Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, ...' 'Manfred'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronManfred: A Dramatic PoemUnknown
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by Mrs. Radcliffe.' Claire Clairmont Mary-Anne RadcliffeManfrone; or, the One-handed MonkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...
Albert Ruskin Cook Harry Emerson FosdickManhood of the MasterPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted to quite intensely from the day I read your two munif...Henry James H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945"Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are sev...Joseph Conrad H. (Herbert) G. (George) Wells Mankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals...Charles Stansfield H.G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals...Howard R Smith H.G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Herbert George WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from R. H....
Margaret Dilks H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from ...
Margaret Dilks H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book



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