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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness took him."George Otto Trevelyan Anthony HopeThe Dolly dialoguesPrint: 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 James RennieThe Domestic Habits of BirdsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

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<...		Elizabeth T. Alexander G. K. ChestertonThe DonkeyUnknown
1800-1849Sunday, 26 April 1829: 'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devorgoil. I believe it was out of mere contradiction tha...Walter Scott Walter ScottThe Doom of DevorgoilManuscript: Unknown
"For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who snapped up The Double Event, told him that he nearly...Walter Home Nat GouldThe Double EventPrint: Book
1900-1945'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the Gods" three times from end to end. As to pages and ps...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordThe Downfall of the GodsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis BeaumontThe Dramatic WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ben JonsonThe Dramatic Works of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to rights. ?The Dream? (H.G. Wells).' Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844: 'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]domestic[end italics] is one, I think, in an octav...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonThe Dream, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anonThe Drummer of TedworthPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duc...The 'X' SocietyJohn WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfyPrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Duchess of WrexePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchesse of MalfyPrint: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole Richard Brinsley SheridanThe DuennaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of Milan").'John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Duke of MilanPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads very well, and Massinger is not easy to read.' John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Duke of MilanPrint: Book


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