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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 evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Katherine Evans George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Mary Robson George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Charles Evans George Meredith'Juggling Jerry'Print: Book
1850-1899'Talking about G. Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899'Even George Meredith says: "It contains a remarkable study of love."'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'You will find Lucy and Richard in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith ... I have read Richard thrice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1850-1899'... after that you will read the Egoist by the same ... I have read... The Egoist six times ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says ...David Lloyd George George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says ...Frances Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a less than frugal luncheon (no ice aboard) I made an attempt to read "The Egoist" (a tattered copy of which lay on the desk) but gave it up and lay, practically f...Ronald Storrs George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: 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
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Knox Taylor George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sandstone all riven and broken, without water to smooth it. Great purposeless ruined gashes running up into the hills. We found our dulul here and camped on account ...Gertrude Bell George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Have you read "Harry Richmond" lately? I like the first part of the book immensely, but skipped afterwards—copiously and vigorously. On the whole, "Evan Harrington" ...Ivor Bertie Gurney George MeredithThe Adventures of Harry RichmondPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have you read "Harry Richmond" lately? I like the first part of the book immensely, but skipped afterwards—copiously and vigorously. On the whole, "Evan Harrington" ...Ivor Bertie Gurney George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have only just arrived here: the last ten days having been occupied in reading "The Egoist" in the Orderly Room at Moore [Barracks, Shorncliffe]. It was my sad fat...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have finished and laid by "The Egoist". I see now that Meredith belongs to that class of novelists with whom I do not usually get on so well (e.g. Dickens), who cr...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am in a condition such as demands amusement as a cure: that is, I am an invalid—though not a despondent one. I have been struggling with … bronchitis for more th...Herbert Edward Read George MeredithOne of Our ConquerorsPrint: Book
1800-1849Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo...Thomas Carlyle George MoirPreface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil...Print: Book
1900-1945'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also ...Harry Dorrell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book


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