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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[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Wilton ColeSpeech and SoundPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1. Elizabeth Lyttelton William ScroggsSpeech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at hi...Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...Virginia Woolf Adolf HitlerSpeech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreemen...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...'newspaper sellers'Adolf HitlerSpeech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreemen...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no judgement to give.'Harriet Martineau Lord Broughamspeech on educationUnknown
1800-1849The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831: 'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspapers; and I read it again last night with great satisfa...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington John Wilson CrokerSpeech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history o...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSpeechesPrint: Book
1900-1945'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is much truth in what he says. This statement, is, I sup...Adolf HitlerSpeechesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of Demosthenes.' ...Claire Clairmont Demosthenes speechesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connell in one of the Irish papers, which, with the faul...Mary Russell Mitford speeches of Daniel O'ConnellPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulaySpeeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M....Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the "Liberator."'Harriet Martineau Speeches to Boston meeting (anti-slavery?)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘See … p. 54 "Sphere" for a good peep at Swinburne. Dam disgusting, excuse me … Have you seen Arnold Bennett’s "Pretty Lady". Fortunately I just secured my copy befor...Wilfred Owen Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the HomePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett W.B. MaxwellSpinster of this ParishPrint: Book
1700-1799Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescretion and malice...' 2. 'Mythology. The promiscuo...Frances Hamilton M. de Secondat, Baron de MontequieuSpirit of LawsPrint: Book
1800-1849I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy...Anne Lutton Hester Ann RogersSpiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the ExperiPrint: Book
1800-1849'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before...Christopher Thomson Thomas SkinnerSplendid miseryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Mary E. Robson Walter Russell BrainSpoonbillManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'We started before 6 but, though the distance is short, the difficult going prevented us reaching here till 10.30 ... What a place it'll be to spend the night! ... ...Robert Dunlop Smith Hugh Latimer HaughtonSport and Folklore on the HimalayaPrint: Book


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