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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...Thomas A. Jackson Jeremy TaylorHoly LivingPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...Thomas A. Jackson Jeremy TaylorHoly DyingPrint: Book
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself ...Elizabeth Barrett Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jeremy TaylorRule and Exercises of Holy Living, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.Isaac Archer Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemning expressions. "Now, (said I) this cannot be said wi...James Boswell Jeremy TaylorGolden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and li...Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gives a very good advice: 'Never lie in your prayers; ...Samuel Johnson Jeremy TaylorGolden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and li...Print: Book
1850-1899'[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett an...Joseph Keating Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Serial / periodical
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 Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


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Francis Pollard Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
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5. R....		Bruce Dilks Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a BoatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read "Three Men on a bummel" by Jerome K Jerome.'William Thomas Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the BummelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Diary of a Pilgrimage'Sarah Good Jerome K. JeromeDiary of a PilgrimagePrint: Book
1700-1799'[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, though his body was relaxed. He lay in bed with the book...Samuel Johnson Jeronimo LoboVoyage to Abyssinia , APrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf Jessie ChambersD. H. Lawrence: A Personal RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end unde...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradTimes Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned m...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradJoseph Conrad as I Knew HimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[.....Joseph Conrad Jessie ConradA Handbook of Cookery for a Small House Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
1850-1899'Story of Lancashire cotton famine[/]American War'Sarah Good Jessie FothergillProbation: A NovelPrint: Book


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