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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 ...		Muriel Stevens H. G. WellsThe Valley of SpidersPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg H. G. Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the reading class...William Henry Hudson H. G. Wells[articles in the Daily Mail]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and this evening I re-read it from pp.290-504. I don't know...Joseph Conrad H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces o...Joseph Conrad H. G.(Herbert George) WellsNew Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socia...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron H. Gally KnightIlderim: A Syrian TaleUnknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and book of verse. [...] I am delighted to possess your translations of modern Welsh verse, also the introduction and biographical note...William Henry Hudson H. Idris BellPoems from the Welsh: Translated into English Vers...Print: Book
1900-1945'"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament Conference.'Vera Brittain H. N. BrailsfordThe New ClarionPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840: 'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till my return to town, for your kindness in sending me ...Caroline Norton H. Nelson Coleridge'Modern English Poetesses'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 15. 5. 36
    H. M. Wallis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
5. A General Knowledge t...		Members of the XII Book ClubH. R. Smith and Charles StansfieldBOOK CLUB: General Knowledge Paper, 15th May 1936.Manuscript: Typescript sheets
1850-1899"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'"Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan H. Rider Haggard[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything...Henry James H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything...Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Pearl Maiden.'Verena Vera Pennefather H. Rider HaggardThe Pearl MaidenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha...Lillian Faithfull and motherH. T. BuckleHistory of CivilisationPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 31 January 1829: 'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.'Walter Scott H. U. TigheHistorical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of t...Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


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Edgar Castle H. V. MortonIn Search of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf H. W. Fowler and F. G. FowlerThe King's EnglishPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Wonderful VisitPrint: Book


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