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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'Rest in dining room. Greek. Rev 10[.] Dinner 7.30. Signed against drink.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 10Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Rest in dining room with hot bottle ... Finished Rev 11 in Gr. Testament with Eva.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 11Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Back for early dinner. 1.30. Rest on sofa[.] Read Greek with Eva to Rev 14. v 13. Henry in for tea brought Evening Standard. Bombs dropped by Zeppelin, but no serious in...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 14Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Greek with Eva Rev 15 to end.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 15Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read Rev 20 with Eva.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 20Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read Rev:6 in Greek with Eva.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 6Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Out in motor with Miss Kitching who gave me picture testament and Observer. Read Greek Test. with Eva[.] Finished Rev. 9.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 9Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubCharles EvansRevenge or JusticeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found a Magazine, and Review, and a letter from Coleridge ...William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.'William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [....Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Hornereview article on Tennyson and/or BrowningPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [....Elizabeth Barrett Leigh Huntreview article on Tennyson and/or BrowningPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you will see how the poor Spectatorists were puzzled an...Robert Louis Stevenson anonReview article; and 'Husbands and Wives'.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You bet I saw the Courant notice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Review in 'Edinburgh Courant'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I liked your John Brown.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyReview in Academy (11 March 1882)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.'Robert Louis Stevenson A J ButlerReview in AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederick James FurnivallReview in The AcademyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I see Roughs Lorenzino reviewed. I had not expected much.' Robert Southey anonReview of William Rough, Lorenzini di Medici Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig Review of "Lothair"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of 'An Inland Voyage'Print: Serial / periodical


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