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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'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

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6. Isabel Taylor re...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds John KeatsOn First Looking into Chapman's HomerUnknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding John GalsworthyOn Forsyte ChangePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hastings Castle — which Horace once showed me — it was ——— ...Robert Southey Charles CollinsOn Hastings CastleManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Thomas Carey, 'On his Mistress going to Sea'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas CareyOn his mistress going to seaUnknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound yo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Aristotleon LogicPrint: Book
1800-1849'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over th...William Graham John A. CarlyleOn Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures an excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'Albert Ruskin Cook Ernest William Hey GrovesOn Modern Methods of Treating FracturesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Ernest William Hey GrovesOn Modern Methods of Treating FracturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar Tom ScottOn my 21st BirthdayManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Ah ['Oh!' in original] do not quite your friend forget/...' [4 lines: last 4 lines of 48-line text]'Carey/Maingay groupMary TigheOn Receiving a Branch of MezereonPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL.Catherine Austen Letitia Elizabeth LandonOn Sir Walter ScottUnknown
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich SchillerOn the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of L...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.George Eliot [pseud] William R. GroveOn the Correlation of Physical ForcesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italic...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeOn the Death of Mr CrashawPrint: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Wotton, 'On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton.' Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonOn the Death of Sr Albertus MortonUnknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751: 'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only late publication I have met with is Mr Smart's Prize V...Elizabeth Carter Christopher SmartOn the Eternity of the Supreme BeingPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical e...Print: Book
1850-1899'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its subtlety and restraint prevent it from ever being rea...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book


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