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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Arnold Joselin J. W. DunneAn Experiment with TimeManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you have read Mackail's Morris [...] I felt much moved, aft...Henry James J. W. MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...

Reginald H. Robson J. W. MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Bruce Dilks J. W. W. SullivanThe Bases of Modern SciencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Bruce Dilks J. W. W. SullivanThe Bases of Modern SciencePrint: Book
1900-1945'The " [Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.' Hence follow five more lines of praise. Joseph Conrad J.(James) G.(Gibbons) HunekerIvory Apes and PeacocksPrint: Book
1800-1849'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's...Thomas Carter J.-C.-L. Simonde de SismondiHistorical View of the Literature of the South of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Anacharsis'.Mary Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'We read Anacharsis'Mary and Percy ShelleyJ.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway J.A. Hobson Print: Book
1900-1945'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .'Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyMercury, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding J.B. PriestleyGood CompanionsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding J.B. PriestleyGood Companions, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the wei...Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyThe English Comic CharacterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cours...Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945 Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercury'. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cou...Arnold Bennett J.B. Priestley Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it. I certainly think it is a much better book tha...Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyBenightedPrint: Book


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