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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'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Muriel Stevens The CountrymanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recd the Courier this morning with an account of the Death of Mr Canning...'Robert Sharp The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'Benjamin Newton n/aThe CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: h...Thomas Carlyle The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descending, sat and smiled.' signed 'aunt a.' 'quarry bank j...Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Robert PollokThe course of timeUnknown
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an extroardinary [sic] w...Elizabeth Barrett Robert PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’Hartley Coleridge Robert PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'George Gordon Lord Byron William Stewart RoseThe Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely transla...Unknown
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Leigh HuntThe Court ServantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Charles E. Stansfield James Russell LowellThe Courtin’Unknown
1900-1945'Sat. Nil. Read "Courtship of Morris ——" by AEW Mason.'William Thomas A. E. W. MasonThe Courtship of Maurice BucklerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'Joseph Conrad Liam O'FlahertyThe Cow's DeathPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should be capable of being put into a phrase, "ten words th...Edward Morgan Forster Percy LubbockThe Craft of FictionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoThe Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of PlPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning I sat in the back garden roasting myself in the sun and reading Fiske Kimball's Rococo book.'James Lees-Milne Fiske KimballThe Creation of the RococoPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, because, though greater than any of his generation, he w...Edward Morgan Forster Gerald HeardThe Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord...Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'Virginia Woolf Thomas CreeveyThe Creevey PapersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Samuel James ArnoldThe CreolePrint: Book


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