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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
 
1600-1699'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1600-1699'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'If you can get me any poetical information about the River of Amazons I shall be glad — but I must have no ...Robert Southey Isabel Godin des Odonais Lettre Contenant la Relation des Madame Godin (par...Print: Book
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[column in ] New York Herald Tribune BooksPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was n...Ford Madox Ford Isabel Paterson[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York H...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Ludwig van Beethoven]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Edward Elgar]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Jean Sibelius]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Carl Zeller]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Richard Strauss]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2...		Isabel Taylor Isabel Taylor[Biographical notes on Tchaikovsky]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, wh...Thomas Kitching Isabel Constance ClarkeHaworth ParsonagePrint: 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 Isabella SpenceHow to be Rid of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentione...Mary Berry Isocrates orationPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentione...Mary Berry and parsonIsocrates orationPrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He ...Gerald Moore Israel ZangwillKing of the SchnorresPrint: Book
1850-1899[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to ...Joseph Conrad Israel ZangwillPremier and the PainterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Mary S. Stansfield Israel ZangwillThe Children of the GhettoPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A cheap dinner and so to King’s Cross an hour early to get a Corner Seat … I read some Israel Zangwill as far as the Midlands. Then … slept. I woke up as we were rou...Wilfred Owen Israel ZangwillunspecifiedPrint: Book


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