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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
 
1800-1849'Remember the Past!' '"Remember the Past" Oh since Fate has bereft me/...'Carey/Maingay groupAlaric Alexander WattsRemember the PastPrint: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast today [...] Last night I redde to him certain remini...Horace Walpole unknownreminiscencesUnknown
1900-1945'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who had lately brought out her memoirs. Mrs Ward had bee...Mary Augusta Ward Julia Ward HoweReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf Lord KilbrackenReminiscencesPrint: Book
1850-1899'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, we take another view; the first vol. a la bonne heur...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. D...		Ethel C. Stevens Agnes Gwendoline HuntReminiscencesPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pamphlet, Reminiscences of Handel (1836).Richard Clark Richard ClarkReminiscences of Handel, His Grace the Duke of Cha...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I did not want that to become public property. If you ...Cornelia Sorabji Kirkham (ed.)Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia'...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, cho...Robert Louis Stevenson William Forbes-MitchellReminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Wilmot John Eardley Eardley (ed)Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, e...Print: Book
1900-1945"Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn's". Vol. II has date of reading: "June 29 1914". Vol...George Otto Trevelyan Henry GunningReminiscences of the university, town and county ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I have never seen, [is] [...] Miss Kelty [...] I have l...Harriet Martineau Miss KeltyReminiscences of Thought and FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the paper...George Gordon Lord Byron Oxoniensis [pseud.]Remonstrance against CainPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRemorse: a tragedy in five actsPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


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Charles E. Stansfield Edna St. Vincent MillayRenascence and Other PoemsUnknown
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 Norbert DavisRendezvous with FearPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the principles of its construction is both 'entertaining & i...Arnold Bennett Edmund and Jules de GoncourtRenee MauperinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee o...Vera Brittain Report by the Joint War Committee of the British R...Print: official report
1900-1945Wednesday 23 July 1930: 'Lady L[avery] discussed the air crash [...] I was driving down to the Temple with Vita [Sackville-West], & we bought a Standard in the gateway. "...Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West report of air crash on 21 JulyPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:] 'Every body seems very impatient for important news from America; for my own part, I have so little hope of any ...Elizabeth Carter report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of In...Print: Newspaper


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