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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...	Arnold Bennett	H.M. Tomlinson	The Estuary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...	Arnold Bennett	H.M. Tomlinson	The Estuary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting dis...	Charles Stansfield	H.M. Wallis	[paper on Kipling]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...	Hilary Spalding	H.V. Morton	In Search of England	Print: Book
		'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...		H.V. Morton	In the Steps of the Master	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A letter from H.W. Jones resigning membership in the Club was read'	Alfred Rawlings	H.W. Jones	[letter resigning from XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I have got a batch of my syllabus correspondence away...	Gerald Moore	H.W. Nevinson	Between the Acts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...	Joseph Conrad	H.\|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson	The Fog	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The Mansab came this morning, and brought a very precious possession, a manuscript copied by his grandfather from earlier histories, a sort of commonplace book of ...	Freya Stark	Habib Ahmed	[untitled commonplace book]	Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
	1900-1945	'When the sun had set and I was in bed again, the Mansab's brother, the Qadhi, came to help with explanatory notes for the names of places in the manuscript. We dis...	Freya Stark	Habib Ahmed	[untitled commonplace book]	Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
	1900-1945	'The first section of my own manuscript is copied out now and has given useful information, such as the date of the restoration and final ruin, in A.D. 1298, of al-...	Ali Qadhi of Shibam	Habib Ahmed	[untitled commonplace book]	Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
	1850-1899	George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3."	George Gissing	Hall Caine	The Manxman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Hall Caine	The Bondman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'	William Ewart Gladstone	Hall Caine	The Scapegoat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ...	Newman Flower	Hall Caine	The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...	Alfred Tennyson	Hall Caine		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. Minutes of last read + approved.	Charles E. Stansfield	Halliday Sutherland	The Arches of the Years	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...	Elizabeth T. Alexander	Halliday Sutherland	A Time to Keep	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...	Elizabeth T. Alexander	Halliday Sutherland	A Time to Keep	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: an...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Hamilton Aide	Carr of Carrlyon	Print: Book

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