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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.Members of XII Book ClubPercy Bysshe ShelleySkylark, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Alfred Rawlings Edith SitwellSleeping Beauty
1900-1945'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I have read with absolute delight and appreciation of eve...Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerSlepa latarka (Dark Lantern)Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is actually declared. We heard the news this morning as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell anonslip of paper printed with news of declaration of ...Print: loose slip of paper
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Katherine Evans A.C CurtisSmall Garden Useful, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Cecil TorrSmall Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for your letter and the "Smart Set", which I think very good, also Bottomley's article, which is much to the point. Since last writing we have ...John Michael Howard Harker Smart SetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other soul. He is simply unspeakable. I will ram this stat...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a f...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 February, 1802: 'Read Smollet's life.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert AndersonSmollett's LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of...William Henry Hudson L. H. de V. ShawSnipe and WoodcockPrint: Book
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 Paul GallicoSnow Goose, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "Snow Upon the Desert", by Miss Macnaughten, rather a jolly tale. Very good concert party here tonight, from the Canadian Corps.'Douglas Herbert Bell Sarah MacnaughtanSnow Upon the DesertPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbSnowdrop TimeUnknown
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1900-1945		Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee James Mark BaldwinSocial and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Devel...Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Dec. 11th. Farringford. A. read me some of Maurice's Social Morals; "a noble book" it seemed to me, as A. called it.'Alfred Tennyson MauriceSocial MoralsPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawSocialism and Superior BrainsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s dat...Gerald Moore J. Ramsay MacdonaldSocialism: Critical and ConstructivePrint: Book
1600-1699"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the...Royal Society Society minutesManuscript: Unknown


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