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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 Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Reginald H. Robson Hugh de SelincourtThe Cricket MatchPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Charles DickensThe Cricket on the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Sunday morning Blair and I left Hospital. We drove to the McCormicks' Bungalow, and since then I've been having a real slack time. I am reading The Crisis by Wi...Robert Dunlop Smith Winston ChurchillThe CrisisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 R. H. Robson in the chair.
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2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc & hi...		Howard Smith Hilaire BellocThe Crisis of our CivilizationPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless ...Joseph Conrad The CriterionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff says, one of "those whom Heaven has blessed with af...Walter Scott Richard Brinsley SheridanThe CriticUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 4 January 1827: 'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry folks were we."' Walter Scott R. B. SheridanThe CriticPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen...Thomas Carlyle Immanuel KantThe Critique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Sunday morning Blair and I left Hospital. We drove to the McCormicks' Bungalow, and since then I've been having a real slack time. I am reading The Crisis by Wi...Robert Dunlop Smith Winston ChurchillThe CrossingPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies John RuskinThe Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, T...Print: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Crown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr...George Gregory Charles Monroe SheldonThe Crucifixion of Philip StrongPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my way till very lately, and I read it with low spirits,...Elizabeth Carter Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to n...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Read "The Crystal Stopper" by Maurice Blanc ... Unable to play Badminton.'William Thomas Maurice LeBlancThe Crystal StopperPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'Afternoon stopped at home and finished "Cuckoo Clock"[...].' Gertrude Bell Mary Louise MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting...Arnold Bennett F.A. HornibrookThe Culture of the AbdomenPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a low note" until, for the female parts, "he changed ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe CupUnknown
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1850-1899		'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's can ever be as striking and impressive as that "Curse...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Curse of BoadiceaUnknown


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