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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much as five hours to read straight off. No one ever does ... [n/a]The EngineerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


5. Eight anonymo...

Alfred Rawlings Edgar CastleThe English - are they modest?Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. NicholsonThe English Attititude towwards GamesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Saviles (in a book of the Baronets lately come out), with...Gertrude Savile Thomas WottonThe English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and HisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyThe English Comic CharacterPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the "English humourists" by Thackeray'Albert Battiscombe William ThackerayThe English Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonWilliam Makepeace ThackerayThe English Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman's Journal. She bought it, attracted by the title, b...Jessie Boucherett The Englishwoman's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)' Gerald Moore Arthur W. PollittThe Enjoyment of MusicPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'Nothing disgusts me so much as the affectation of fine language. Godwins Enquirer is a sad example. i...Robert Southey William GodwinThe Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners an...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George SamouelleThe Entomologist's Useful CompendiumPrint: Book
1700-1799'I took the 2nd Vol. & brought the 3d of Lyons &c. They are very entertaining books.'Joseph Hunter Daniel LyonsThe Environs of London, Being an Historical Accoun...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreThe Epicurean. A TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle William WilkieThe EpigoniadPrint: Book
1700-1799'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. Frances Hamilton R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester)The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscel...Print: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatment. He got so many food parcels from home, plus wha...Thomas Kitching A.J. EvansThe escaping clubPrint: Book
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett H.M. TomlinsonThe EstuaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett H.M. TomlinsonThe EstuaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtout vers le fin. Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Eternal HusbandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your very great kindness in sending it to me. Even though...Edith Sitwell E M ForsterThe Eternal MomentPrint: Book


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