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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
 
1700-1799'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me to Lord Orford's letters to her, tho' in a very mut...Mr Brand Horace Walpole, Lord OrfordLetters to Lady OssoryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have probably read too.'Clive Staples Lewis Horace Annesley VachellThe Paladin, as Beheld by a Woman of TemperamentPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Last week I went to an excellent play, a really charming Comedy—Quinney’s, by Vachell. Am now reading and book by Vachell "The Hill", a tale of Harrow, and the hills...Wilfred Owen Horace Annesley VachellThe HillPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valors...John Ruskin Horace Benedict de SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same auth...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
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 Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet Recollections of a Diplomatist AND/OR Further Rec...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better than these strains to her eldest born. they immortalize...Robert Southey Horace Walpole BedfordOde to IndolenceManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 11 December 1793: 'Let me turn to more chearful subjects. your verses were particularly good — & they have the additional merit ...Robert Southey Horace Walpole BedfordMS versesManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Horace-Bénédicte de SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In Aunt-Judy 1885'Sarah Good Horatia Katharine Frances GattyJuliana Horatia Ewing and Her BooksPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds."Henry James Horatio BrownMemoir of John Addington SymondsPrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horatio BrownVenetian StudiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you taking the risk of loss in order to give me that pleasu...Joseph Conrad Horatio Nelson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many years ago, I walked with my poor brothers James & Mart...Sarah Harriet Burney Horatio SmithTor HillPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this pro...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1900-1945'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readin...Howard Smith Howard Smith[Paper on William Pett Ridge]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper on Subliminal Consciousness & W.S Rowntree on Eviden...Howard Smith Howard Smith[paper on Subliminal Consciousness]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928 C. J. Evans in the Chair 1 Minutes of last approved Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held ...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved


[...]

4 The Most Part...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 19...Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook


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