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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
 
1850-1899'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scot...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."'Robert Louis Stevenson George HerbertThe Temple: The Church Porch xxiiPrint: Book
1850-1899'A letter from H.W. Jones resigning membership in the Club was read'Alfred Rawlings H.W. Jones[letter resigning from XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-18993 April 1854: 'At Basingstoke I got The Times, where I expected to find a very violent tirade against Henry Layard [Lady Charlotte's cousin, an M.P.], but the article ...Lady Charlotte Guest report on Parliamentary speech of Henry LayardPrint: Newspaper
1850-189919 May 1854: 'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more than ever I should wish to be as young as I feel ......Lady Charlotte Guest Edward Bulwer-LyttonMy NovelPrint: Unknown
1850-189914 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]: 'I got a hasty luncheon and started alone for my ...Lady Charlotte Guest biography of Hartley ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'John Luther Hawkins Stopford BrookeTennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life Print: Book
1850-1899"Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into th...Robert Louis Stevenson BiblePrint: Book
1850-189922 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor re...Lady Charlotte Guest, Ivor Guest, Monty Guest, Charles Schreiber report of Crimea battle [?Inkermann]Print: Newspaper
1850-189922 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor re...Ivor Guest The Golden BeetlePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'.Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlings[Minutes of XII Book Club meeting]Manuscript: book
1850-1899'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlings[XII Book Club minutes]Manuscript: book
1850-1899'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'John Luther Hawkins John Luther Hawkins[paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but a virtuous resolution to stick to a piece of work I ...Thomas Henry Huxley Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelaireunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, ...'Rosie' Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in China (1874-78): 'Outside of his work Sir Robert Ha...Sir Robert Hart unknown[Light French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent treatment of him): 'He retained his fine appetite till he was five or six years o...Mrs. Mary Beeton[cookery book]Print: Book


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