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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Muriel Stevens Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Howard Smith Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Rosamund Wallis Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Margaret Dilks Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Francis E. Pollard Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole Salomon GessnerThe Death of AbelPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you expressly on the Poems of Ossian; I have rea...Harriet Holmes James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843: 'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remained too long unanswered [...] I thought it necessary...Elizabeth Barrett James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstrous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutzer Sonata" for instance; where an obvious degenerate...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Illyich and other storiesPrint: Book
'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ..."' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Death of WallensteinUnknown
1900-1945'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing my paper for Wednesday.' Gerald Moore Sidney and Beatrice WebbThe Decay of Capitalist CivilisationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...'Constance Lytton Oscar WildeThe Decay of LyingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...'Robert Lytton Oscar WildeThe Decay of LyingPrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Decline and Fall" all afternoon and evening.'Martin Wentworth Littlewood Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent Oswald Arnold Gottfried SpenglerThe Decline of the WestPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe DeerslayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayer or The First WarpathPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford James Fenimore CooperThe Deerslayer, or, The First WarpathPrint: Book


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