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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'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthySome Platitudes Concerning DramaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield...Miss Goadby William Makepeace ThackeraySome Roundabout PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly Review of 1881, on ?some technical elements of styl...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonSome technical elements of style in literatuePrint: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson John LockeSome Thoughts Concerning EducationPrint: Unknown
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 ClubRosamund WallisSome Thoughts on RacingManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


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Howard Smith John J. CooperSome Worthies of ReadingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Howard R. Smith William de MorganSomehow GoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have just finished some recollections of Kipling called Something of Myself. I am horrified at his sufferings as a child. When not with the Burne-Jones family he was...Vere Hodgson Rudyard KiplingSomething of Myself for My Friends Known and Unkno...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]SomnambulistPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Emile ZolaSon Excellence Eugene RougonPrint: Book
1700-1799" Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca"Lady Eleanor Butler PetrarchSonatto di PetrarcaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read it, as I cannot easily decipher musical MS.' Arnold Bennett Cedric SharpeSongManuscript: Sheet
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these ve...Susanna Arabella Thrale John DrydenSong for St. Cecilia's DayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tis thy will and I must leave thee, oh! Thou best beloved farewell/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAmelia OpieSong of A Hindustani Girl [The Poor Hindoo]Unknown
1900-1945'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.' NB "Song of Bernadette" appears on the list of 'books read d...Hilary Spalding Franz WerfelSong of BernadettePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Franz WerfelSong of Bernadette, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin n/aSong of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Song of SolomonManuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Song of SolomonPrint: Book


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