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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Virgil[works]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Margaret Dilks anon [Write-up on the cover of a copy of the play Dista...Print: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Charles Evans William Henry Hudson[writing on Hampshire villages]Print: Book
1800-1849' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterre". He says it is full of talent, but that there are...James Mackintosh Germaine de Stael[writings about England, never published as 'De L'...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White [unknown][writings about religion, Church History, etc]Print: Book
1800-1849'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and their honesty. We see why he was hated in India, an...Sydney Smith Thomas Babington Macaulay[writings on Indian Courts and Education]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhyth...Charles Evans Henry Newbolt[writings on Nature of poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhyth...Alfred Rawlings Thomas Walls Dutton[writings on Nature of poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense of the word, the melody of his native mountains; - ...Thomas Carlyle Maclaurin[writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at...Samuel Bamford William Cobbett[writings]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Comission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his pri...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Writ]Unknown
1850-1899'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlings[XII Book Club minutes]Manuscript: book
1900-1945I am reading some Yemeni legends and tales. One nice one about two rival doctors, a good and a bad one: the King said he would take as his family physician the one ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][Yemeni legends and tales]Unknown
1850-1899'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'George Eliot (pseud) Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau[zoology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Edith Goadby Samuel Butler[‘Notes’]Unknown
1850-1899'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you patted Pater on the back and promised him some cake...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin‘A Greek Hymn’.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

4. The Subject ...

Charles E. Stansfield Plato‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The RepublicPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of London. methinks like Camoens I could dub it Babylon & wr...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns ‘Babylon and Sion’ Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219, Kings Road. 15th October 1942. Dorothea Taylor in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
2. The secret...		Arnold Joselin Charles Lamb‘Christ's Hospital Five-And-Thirty Years Ago’Print: Book


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