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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
 
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By the Revd. J.E. Hankinson M. A. - 1833.' A poem beginn...C.M.G. [anon] Rev. J.E. HankinsonSt Paul at PhilippiUnknown
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and therefore, of course, better than all others. Every now a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer LyttonSt Stephen'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them. James Usher St Augustine St. Augustines MeditationsUnknown
1900-1945'Just read Lord Elton's book St George and the Dragon. He represents a new planet in the sky for me. He analyses the thought of the last 20 years and the movements th...Vere Hodgson Godfrey EltonSt. George or the Dragon: Towards a Christian Demo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Edward du BoisSt. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth a...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845: 'I have read to the last line of your Rosicrucian; & my scepticism grew & grew through Hume's p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleySt. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a G...Print: Book
1800-1849'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'.Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer ...Rev Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'.Claire Clairmont William GodwinSt. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish St Leon.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of St Leon'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'Mary Shelley William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Edgar Castle Frederic William Henry MyersSt. PaulUnknown
1900-1945'Thanks very much indeed for the mail I had this afternoon, three letters & the "Weekly Sentinel". It bucked me up considerably as I had not heard from you for some...John Lawton Staffordshire Weekly SentinelPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

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5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Rosamund Wallis Matthew ArnoldStagiriusUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		George Burrow Rudyard KiplingStalky & Co.Print: 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 Rudyard KiplingStalky and CoPrint: Book
1800-1849'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the "Stamford Mercury" [quotes advert]'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper


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