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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
 
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Francis SteegmullerFlaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Francis Thompson Print: Book
"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though she had been taken hold of and mastered, and determin...Enid Starkie Francis ThompsonThe Hound of HeavenPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding Francis ThompsonHound of Heaven, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading Francis Thompson's poems that day (my mother had bo...Antonia White Francis Thompson[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.Members of XII Book ClubFrancis ThompsonShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Howard Smith Francis Thompson?"At Lords"Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I o...William Wordsworth Francis WranghamHuman Laws best supported by the GospelUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have...Wordsworth FamilyFrancis WranghamGospel best promulgated in National Schools, TheUnknown
1700-1799'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sept. 1794.' Francis Wrangham Francis WranghamBrutoniadManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have ...William Wordsworth Francis Wranghamtranslation of Virgil, EcloguesUnknown
1800-1849'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annua...William Wordsworth Francis Wrangham[poem]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis WranghamThe Life of Dr. Richard BentleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis WranghamScrapsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis Bond HeadBubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old manPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'Charles Darwin Francis Bond HeadGallop: Rapid journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Elizabeth Boott, 24 January 1872: "I heard read in MS. the other evening a new story by Bret Harte (for the next Atlantic) better than anything in his 'sec...Henry James Francis Bret Harte[unidentified story]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduc...Miss Wallis Francis Bret Harte'Waif of the Plains, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduc...Helen Rawlings Francis Bret Harte'Luck of Roaring Camp, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduc...Ursula Unwin Francis Bret Harte[poems]Print: Book


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