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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
 
1700-1799'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard today pleased me enormously and the style is very fine'...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [Abbe] BarthelemyLes Voyages du Jeune AnacharsisPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...

Victor Alexander [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 Ap...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-19451. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Francis E. Pollard [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Margaret Dilks [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		A. Austin Miller [An acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
Margaret Dilks [An acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisant pays de France/ O ma patrie/ La plus cherie/ Qui a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?[Adieu]Print: Unknown
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Edith B. Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters]Print: Book
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Howard Smith [anonymous authors] [unidentified humorous letters]Print: Book
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Muriel Stevens [anonymous authors] [letters written to children]Unknown
1700-1799'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". "about one-third of the anecdotes" says the editor ....Joseph Hunter [Anon] Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fren...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appeared in the "Monthly Magazine" than they acknowledge...Joseph Hunter [Anon] Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fren...Print: Book
1850-1899'Zoe Proctor [sic] (b. 1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitud...Zoe Procter [Anon] [Anon]story booksPrint: Book
1900-1945'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed in bed (valises!) and so did the men. We ate, slept...Robert Lindsay Mackay [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciated. I see by a paper of the 18th that Whitby and S...Henry William Williamson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps — in reality he is walking away of his own free will, as slowly...Henry William Williamson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The books are very welcome. I shall enjoy reading wha...Henry William Williamson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Still, it is a very fine tragedy. So is the Greek play that we are doing. It is quite unlike all that stiff bombast which we are accustomed to associate with Greek tra...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement, which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]The Nietzschean WayPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Laxdaela SagaPrint: Book


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