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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 Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...
Rosamund Wallis [unidentified male refugee in New York] [Private letter concerning ‘The Rhythm of Glass Wa...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...
Rosamund Wallis [unidentified male refugee in New York] [Private letter concerning ‘The Rhythm of Glass Wa...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...]
3. The ...
Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on the criteria of classic ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
[...]
...
Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on natural history]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
[...]
...
Arnold Joselin [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [Brains trust question on the desirability of an i...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road Monday 23rd Feb. 1942. A. G. Joselin in the Chair
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
[...]
...
[Unidentified member[s] of the XII Book Club] [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club (edited by a committee of the club)] [An undidentified English dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....
Sylvanus A. Reynolds [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'The Excursion – Saturday 7th July.

Plans laid for our entertainment led to a delightful outing.

Ufton Court proved a most interesting + even th...
Driving members of the XII Book Club[Unknown member of XII Book Club] Excursion to Ufton CourtManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The Excursion – Saturday 7th July.

Plans laid for our entertainment led to a delightful outing.

Ufton Court proved a most interesting + even th...
Victor Alexander [Unknown member of XII Book Club] Excursion to Ufton CourtManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and...
[unknown member of the XII Book Club] [unknown schoolboy] [lines in verse on the relative merits of perpetua...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last m...
[unidentified headmaster of the unidentified author] [unknown schoolboy] [lines in verse on the relative merits of perpetua...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown] Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'AnversUnknown
1900-1945'I have now had your manuscript for some days and have read it with a great deal of interest.' Thence follows a page and a half of constructive and gentle criticism to ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown] Mack[unknown]Manuscript: Unknown
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 [unknown] [unknown][Natural History]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...
[unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] [unnamed repatriated Prisoner of War] [letter giving news of Ralph Smith]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...
Rosamund Wallis [unspecified authors] [poems for children]Print: Book
1700-1799[compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts included came from widely scattered sources and might consi...Mary Wollstonecraft [various] [various works]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come in storm and tempest, there are those/ whom it has su...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Walter] [Scott][The monastery]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone [William?] JonesCommentariiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Tracts by Warburton and "A ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [William] WarburtonTracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'Print: Book



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