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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'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘‘Tis a crude, vagabondage of a life … here I am watching a fair old village toppling about my head. I think the wreckage will look even sicklier when the orchard-tre...Wilfred Owen PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed fo...

Un-named members of the XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyPunch and GoUnknown
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore Punch, or the London CharivariPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I am reading "Puppets into Scotland" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick'Thomas Kitching Walter WilkinsonPuppets into ScotlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the world is plunged into - to appreciate it as I should h...Thomas Kitching Walter WilkinsonPuppets into ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Purgatorio'.George Eliot [pseud] Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Percy and Mary ShelleyDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845: 'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first speech of the group of which Sordello makes one, struck...Robert Browning Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Members of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Frederick Edminson Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book


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