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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
 
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Mary Robson John Keats Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Charles Stansfield John Keats Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Henry Marriage Wallis John Keats Print: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1800-1849A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxi...Walter Scott Henry Mackenzie Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836: 'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don't write as if he were. How much I like his books, an...Fanny Kemble Butler Captain Marryat Print: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...Charles Evans Ben Jonson Print: Book
1850-1899'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some − mostly the Republicans − simply state th...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Pamphlet, Poster
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Love Peacock Print: Book
1850-1899'After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady Charlotte read to him, sometimes for as long as fou...Lady Charlotte Schreiber  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Charles Stansfield John Bunyan Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover...Charles Evans Maurice Hewlett Print: Book
1900-1945''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".'Joseph Conrad John Galsworthy Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Muriel Bowman-Smith Thomas de Quincey Print: Book
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Florence Reynolds Thomas de Quincey Print: Book
1900-1945'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellent notices in J[osé] Echegarray's play ("Cleansing St...unknown  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovered [following operation on 9 January] Maria [daught...Maria [nee Guest] William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".'George Catlin  Print: Newspaper


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