√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'President Wilson made a really magnificent speech, reported in yesterday's Times . War now only awaits Congress assent—a foregone conclusion. He calls for the mobi... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'We had a beautiful service and a celebration afterwards. Just as I was packing up we heard a crackling overhead and, on looking up, saw a plane come tearing down on fire... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson ?Sunday Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40 Margaret Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40 Margaret Dilks Alice and Arnold Joselin Note of apologies for absence from a meeting Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40 Mary Pollard Elizabeth T. Alexander [Letter to Mary Pollard] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40 Members of the XII Book Club Violet Clough, Muriel Stevens and F. E. Pollard Typed lists of books proposed for purchase by the... Manuscript : Typescript1900-1945 'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue, 13.xii.40 Bruce Dilks Margaret Dilks Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 6... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Victor Alexander Reginald H. Robson [Letter to the XII Book Club concerning suppers] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [A sketch of H. G. Wells’s life, character, belief... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Victor Alexander H. G. Wells God the Invisible King Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Margaret Dilks H. G. Wells Mankind in the Making Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Howard Smith H. G. Wells The Sea Lady Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Mary Pollard H. G. Wells Joan and Peter Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair. Muriel Stevens H. G. Wells The Valley of Spiders Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Roger Moore Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Francis E. Pollard H. G. Wells Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Victor Alexander H. G. Wells God the Invisible King Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Margaret Dilks H. G. Wells Mankind in the Making Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Howard Smith H. G. Wells The Sea Lady Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Mary Pollard H. G. Wells Joan and Peter Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Muriel Stevens H. G. Wells The Valley of Spiders Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair. [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club] Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 1... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson The Stately Homes of Thames Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Howard Smith Howard Smith The Story of the River [Thames] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Sylvanus A. Reynolds Mortimer Menpes ?The Thames Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Roger Moore Literary Gleanings [an essay on the Thames in Lite... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Edmund Spenser ?Prothalamion Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gipsy Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Matthew Arnold Thyrsis Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Rudyard Kipling The River's Tale Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Roger Moore Virginia Woolf Orlando Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Bruce Dilks Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Muriel Stevens [Un-named friend of Muriel Stevens] [Notes on Deptford and its river scenes] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39 Sylvanus A. Reynolds [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 [unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] [unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the Meeting of the XII Book Club, 20 Fe... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Bruce Dilks James Jeans The Universe Around Us Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Muriel Stevens Eleanor Acland Good-bye for the Present: The story of two childho... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc The Eyewitness Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Ethel C. Stevens Agnes Gwendoline Hunt Reminiscences Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Roger Moore Thomas Jefferson Hogg Shelley at Oxford Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Dorothea Taylor Hippolyte Adolphe Taine History of English Literature Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939 Reginald H. Robson [unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the Meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [Essay on Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Elizabeth T. Alexander Euripides The Trojan Women Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Mary E. Robson Euripides The Trojan Women Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Leslie Scott Euripides [A paper on Euripides] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Muriel Stevens Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Charles E. Stansfield Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Francis E. Pollard Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Mary Pollard Euripides The Trojan Women Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Sylvanus A. Reynolds Euripides The Trojan Women Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Mary E. Robson Euripides The Trojan Women Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939. Reginald H. Robson [unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the Meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'The Excursion June 24th 1939. Bruce Dilks Victor Alexander The Excursion June 24th 1939 Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Victor Alexander [Unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club, 27 Ma... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Victor Alexander [Unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club, 29 Ap... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson [an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc and his ... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc [An opinion of St. Just] Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc 'The Battle of Hastings' Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc First and Last Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc First and Last Print : Book1850-1899 'Mother has been reading "The Excursion" lately.' Edith Lytton William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1850-1899 'I have just been reading a little of the "Religio Medici". Just at the beginning he is
talking about the Mysteries of Religion, and how he loves to lose himself in one... Emily Lytton Thomas, Sir Browne Religio Medici Print : Book1850-1899 'Mummy...read them a lecture of Froude's on the conduct of boys, at breakfast. The
contrast between what Froude thought boys ought to be, and what boys are, called
fo... Edith Lytton James Anthony Froude Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc [on Algiers] Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Victor Alexander Hilaire Belloc Hills and the Sea Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Muriel Stevens Hilaire Belloc [sonnets and other verses] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Celia Burrow Hilaire Belloc [an account of Dronet’s ride which resulted in the... Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Howard Smith Hilaire Belloc The Historic Thames Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair. Howard Smith Hilaire Belloc The Crisis of our Civilization Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club, 19 Ma... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Victor Alexander Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club, 19 Ma... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Victor Alexander Victor Alexander The Excursion June 24th 1939 Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Francis E. Pollard Francis E. Pollard [A brief introduction to American Literature] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Charles E. Stansfield Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks [A short essay on the career and mystical experien... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Bruce Dilks Walt Whitman [poems on the sea] Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Roger Moore Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Reginald H. Robson Sinclair Lewis Babbit Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39. Roger Moore Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Unknown, Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House, 19·XII·39. [Unidentified acting secretary to the XII Book Club] Victor Alexander Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2... Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Shrapnel and pieces of shell were falling all about us and we expected every minute to be our last ... It was a rotten half hour ... During this bombardment a London ... Horace Bruckshaw London Telegram Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Thank you very much for sending me the papers — it's a treat to read some B'ham news and know what's going on in Brum.' Bernard Wilfrid Long Birmingham Daily Post Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I am sending you a cutting out of the "Daily Telegraph" of Aug 30th containing the London Gazette wherein I am transferred to a Service Battalion and taken off probation... Bernard Wilfrid Long Daily Telegraph Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I started to read "Bleak House" by Dickens when I was at the base and I should like to get on with it. You might get a small 1/- edition and send it on it will you as I ... Bernard Wilfrid Long Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Book1900-1945 'A dead man, just reported to me lying close by. Went out and found (from his identity disc) he was No. 8863, B West, Suffolk Regiment. Lying with his overcoat tied over ... Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [soldier's identity disc] Manuscript : Stamped identity disc1900-1945 'We got up and 9 am surrounded by the females of the farm who were in the kitchen. I in my pyjamas. However, I hid behind the table when I dressed. I just read a ridiculo... Gerald Achilles Burgoyne Daily Mail Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Talking of the necessity for the censoring of letters ... I find quite a number of the men writing absolute lies about the danger they go through; and their extraordinar... Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'We see some funny things when we are censoring our men's letters. One hero wrote home "We are fighting every day" ... One man was pathetically quaint: "Christmas Day we ... Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Rarely do the men write of their life out here; too illiterate; most of the letters are confined to remarks on their own health; questions to the welfare of those at hom... Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Life in Hospital You chiefly occupy your time a) sucking thermometers b) sleeping (if able) c) eating or drinking d) reading. I may add that the sleeping part was... James Coffey unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver... James Coffey unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver... James Coffey Irish Examiner Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver... James Coffey Killarney Echo Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '11 a.m. Take "snap" of Sr. [sister] Murphy in Red Cross Toga. Read for an hour.' James Coffey unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'The paper boy came outside the lines soon after breakfast and there in the Mail was my name "mentioned in dispatches." I couldn't help feeling delighted.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily Mail Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Another sweltering day. News in the paper of a great air raid on London in which 80 people have been killed and several hundreds wounded. Apparently all the German plane... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknown Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'There was more definite news in The Times to-day of the Cambrai victory.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I went to the Divisional canteen which is close by, and made arrangements with them about supplying tea and sugar for my recreation room. Thence home. Details of the bat... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'So home to read in The Times the startling news that the Russians under Lenin, a revolutionary, are beginning preliminary negotiations towards peace. Really the o... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'There was unpleasant news in the paper. The Bolsheviks have made peace with the Central Powers and so now all Russia is at peace, and a regular war flame is running thro... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknown Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The paper very full of Sir W. Robertson's resignation though the reason and details are still a mystery. The most remarkable news was that Germany has declared war again... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknown Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The Times correspondent declares that the great German offensive in the West is imminent, which is cheery. What a war!' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. Th... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson L. M. Hastings 'Regent Street' Print : Serial / periodical, Page proofs1900-1945 'We were in London at a quarter to 2. The evening paper contained a short communiqué saying we had attacked this morning around Albert. Apparently it is not on a very wid... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [London evening newspaper] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Another big push in to-day's paper on a 30-mile front from Morlancourt, south of Arras, right down to Lihons.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknown Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'We have a lovely mess, well warmed and, like all the town, lit with electric light ... Harley came in to dine and sent for his Times , which he got to-day. In it w... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th... Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'My astonishment was great when, after the National Anthem, the Colonel, who was standing beside me, turned to me and said, "I hear you have the Military Cross. Is it tru... Douglas Herbert Bell Daily Telegraph Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have... Douglas Herbert Bell Archibald Marshall Exton Manor Print : Book1900-1945 'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have... Douglas Herbert Bell John Galsworthy Justice: A Tragedy in Four Acts Print : Book1900-1945 'Am reading "Snow Upon the Desert", by Miss Macnaughten, rather a jolly tale. Very good concert party here tonight, from the Canadian Corps.' Douglas Herbert Bell Sarah Macnaughtan Snow Upon the Desert Print : Book1900-1945 'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have... Douglas Herbert Bell Maurice Deroure L'Éveil Print : Book1900-1945 'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have... Douglas Herbert Bell Una L. Silberrad The Affairs of John Bolsover Print : Book1900-1945 'Went for a long run this afternoon; tonight I am "lazing" in front of a fire with a pipe, a book, and two or three friends.' Douglas Herbert Bell unknown unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Weather very dud, nothing doing, might as well be at home. Douglas Herbert Bell Edward Verrall Lucas Cloud and Silver Print : Book1800-1849 'I have since been reading in The Lady of the Lake, and this passage reminds me of our voyage: — "See the proud pipers on the bow, And mark the gaudy streamers flow... Queen Victoria Sir Walter Scott Lady of the Lake Print : Book1800-1849 'It poured the whole afternoon, and, after writing, I read to Albert the three first cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which delighted us both.' Queen Victoria Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel Print : Book1800-1849 'At two o'clock we passed the famed St. Abb's Head, which we had so longed to see on our first voyage to Scotland. I read a few stanzas out of Marmion, giving an account ... Queen Victoria Sir Walter Scott Marmion Print : Book1800-1849 'We went below at half-past seven, and I read the fourth and fifth cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel to Albert, and then we played on the piano.' Queen Victoria Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel Print : Book1800-1849 'We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.' Queen Victoria unknown unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 'We were startled this morning, at seven o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of... Queen Victoria Sun Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'A misty, rainy morning. Had not slept very soundly. We got up rather early, and sat working and reading in the drawing-room till the breakfast was ready, for which we ha... Queen Victoria unknown unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 'The evening being bright and moonlight and very still, we all went out, and walked through the whole village, where not a creature moved; — through the principal l... Prince Louis of Hesse anon proclamation Print : Broadsheet, Poster1850-1899 'We sat till half-past ten working, and Albert reading, — and then retired to rest.' Prince Albert unknown unknown Print : Poster, Unknown1800-1849 'Albert went into Dublin again after luncheon, and I wrote and read, and heard our children say some lessons.' Queen Victoria unknown unknown Print : Poster, Unknown1800-1849 'I never saw our good children looking better, or in higher spirits. I contrived to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history.' Princess Victoria unknown unknown Print : Book, Poster1800-1849 'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ... Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ... Ann Radcliffe The Romance of the Forest Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ... Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ... Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading a good deal about the doctrine of original sin and the being born again...' Elizabeth Wedgwood 1800-1849 'I only divide my time between riding Peggy and reading Sevigne by the fire...' Elizabeth Wedgwood Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne Court Secrets: or the Lady's Chronicle Historical ... Print : Book1800-1849 'After tea he reads to us aloud some German stories translated by Gillies...' Elizabeth Wedgwood R. P. Gillies German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffman... Print : Book1800-1849 'Since my letter to Emma I have read again Medwin's conversations of Byron...' Jessie Sismondi Thomas Medwin Conversations of Lord Byron Print : Book1800-1849 'Charlotte... is now sitting up on the sopha in her Night-Cap and Bed-gown... reading 'Lover's Vows' for the improvement of her mind.' Charlotte Wedgwood Augustus Von Kotzebue Lover's Vows: or the child of love A play in five ... Print : Book1800-1849 'I am reading Madame de Maintenon's letters, and though I have neither respect nor admiration for her character, I find so many sentiments and feelings that I have myself... Elizabeth Wedgwood Maintenon The Letters of Madame de Maintenon 1800-1849 'Another little society of five or six ladies that Mrs Rich belongs to meet once a week to read the Bible and pray together.' The Bible 1800-1849 'He (Mr Scott) prays and reads a chapter and then speaks his discourse, which is certainly a very striking piece of oratory.' Elizabeth Wedgwood The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'He (Mr Scott) prays and reads a chapter and then speaks his discourse, which is certainly a very striking piece of oratory.' The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an... Stephen Lucius Gwynn Henri Barbusse Le Feu Print : Book1900-1945 'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket... Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford Crockett The Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah Katti Print : Book1900-1945 'I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the Faerie Queene , because of his cloth, and he... Reginald Hugh Kiernan Edmond Spenser Faerie Queene Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been happier lately. [The other soldiers] have not called me "College" for a long time, and they do not interfere when I try to read.' Reginald Hugh Kiernan unknown unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, ... Reginald Hugh Kiernan Mark Twain (pseud.) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Print : Book1900-1945 'The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in Kidnapped .' Reginald Hugh Kiernan Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Print : Book1900-1945 'I never feel any emotions now, except the great terrible desire always surging up to get away ... I was thinking a lot today of a book we had at school, Poems of To-d... Reginald Hugh Kiernan English Association Poems of To-day: An Anthology Print : Book1900-1945 'What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's The Soldier . I cannot feel ... Reginald Hugh Kiernan Rupert Brooke 'The Soldier' Print : Book1900-1945 'Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's Robespierre —those times n... Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory John Morley 'Robespierre: An Essay' Print : Book, Unknown1900-1945 'Got a large packet of letters by my cyclist orderly, including a charming little edition of the Imitation of Christ from Sonia.' Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ Print : Book1900-1945 'As I was watching the columns of earth and smoke, there was suddenly a whirring sound and a piece of iron plonked into the mud at my feet, where it lay sizzling. It was ... Hugo Armitage The New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'Saw a Daily Mirror today which contained a photograph of Georgette, the "Belle of Bray", surrounded by some of our sergeants.' Frank Hawkings The Daily Mirror Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'dont forget daily paper every day if you can for I look forward to my paper. we are having it hot out here just. I expect it warm at home now. we expect leave this mount... John William Gower [?Brighton daily newspaper] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Two letters from home ... Explored cellars and caves with Okell ... Search shop above and find volumes of "Lisez[?] moi."' Martin Wentworth Littlewood ?Le "Lisez Moi" Historique Historia Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'We ... took possession of a chateau in the Rue d'Amiens and moved in. I visited Bastion at 9 pm and took my boots off for the first time since the 7th. Slept peacefully ... Martin Wentworth Littlewood [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In afternoon Linder and I went to AVESNES to buy books and wine. Home by a very swift French car which put the wind up us both.' Martin Wentworth Littlewood unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Rhea and his staff are hard at work—Rhea working more particularly at the bacteriology of wounds with special reference to anaërobes ... Jack McCrae looked very fit, but... John Alexander McCrae [medical journals] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'For weeks after reading that book [i.e. Robinson Crusoe], I lived as if in a dream; indeed I scarcely dreamt of anything else at night. I went to sleep with the cave, it... Letitia Elizabeth Landon Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday, 7 April Hand nearly well. Get out any afternoon, hospital blue, overcoat. Picture-house or library, concerts. Food here very good, plenty of books. Expecting to ... William Fisher unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday, 20 June[.] Well-earned day off. Slept like the dead. Afternoon bath and change. Then lounge with an old paper. We are not allowed to leave camp.' William Fisher unknown Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Friday, 25 June[.] Raining, and we are sheltering in dugouts in the trenches we are repairing. Been out six weeks now under shellfire more or less the whole time; to wor... William Fisher unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones William Shakespeare King Richard II Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones William Shakespeare Henry the Eighth Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones William Shakespeare As You Like It Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Marie Corelli Ziska Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Herbert George Wells Food of the Gods Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Albert Delpit Odette's Marriage Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.) A Walking Gentleman Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Frances Hodgson Burnett The Making of a Marchioness Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Mary Elizabeth Braddon Vixen Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Elizabeth Robins The Magnetic North Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Francis Marion Crawford A Roman Singer Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones George Alfred Henty In the Reign of Terror Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Robert William Service Songs of a Sourdough Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.) Forest Folk Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Hugh McHugh (pseud.) John Henry Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones George A. Birmingham (pseud.) The Inviolable Sanctuary Print : Book1900-1945 'Langridge has been chatting with the two orderlies who help us here, from the famous regiment now holding this part of the line. One of them was reading Dodo just... Edward Frederic Benson Dodo: A Detail of the Day Print : Book1900-1945 'The literary orderly has been quoting Rodney Stone outside! I said I would tell the author.' Arthur Conan Doyle Rodney Stone Print : Book1900-1945 'Coldish this morning, with the tiny oil-stove and no boiler — fire till after dark. I have been reading The Romance of War! and am now finishing this [i.e., the d... Ernest William Hornung James Grant The Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in Spain Print : Book1900-1945 'I have had a pleasant, lazy morning reading old James Grant's Romance of War! . I expect the romance was always under one's own cap and tunic.' Ernest William Hornung James Grant The Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in Spain Print : Book1900-1945 'We were too busy at the counter to join ... the [church] service, but once I worked down in a lull and talked a bit to one lad who was quitely reading his Testament; but... The New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'Writing in the seventh number (April 1924) of his new magazine Criterion, Eliot declared that the late "militarist by faith" T. E. Hulme "appears as the forerunner of a ... Thomas Ernest Hulme unknown Print : Book1900-1945 '... I took up a volume with the uncompromising title My Past by a Countess Marie Larisch... T. S. Eliot was certainly one who read it, and before he wrote The Waste Land... T. S. Eliot Marie Larisch My Past Print : Book1900-1945 '80th day of imprisonment ... Friday. Slept well. Played cards sick of it ... 4 pcs from Joe and Ed. James. Started reading "Mystery of Hover Heath" by Bertram Mitford.' William Thomas Bertram Mitford Hover Heath Mystery Print : Book1900-1945 'Saturday. Finished Hover Heath. Started Mystery of Orcival by [Thomas has left a blank here, evidently meaning to fill in the author information later]. 4-6 cards. William Thomas Emile Gaboriau Mystery of Orcival Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.' William Thomas Harold Begbie The Vigil Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.' William Thomas Emile Gaboriau Mystery of Orcival Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)' William Thomas Gospel of Matthew Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)' William Thomas Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday. Rainy day. Met at 11am for Church Service which was cancelled. Walked about. Read The Broken Road by Mason.' William Thomas A. E. W. Mason The Broken Road Print : Book1900-1945 'Saturday. Very stormy wind + heavy showers too wet to walk about. So bridge. Read A Sign of Four by Conan Doyle.' William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday. Lovely day frosty. Received 6 PCs ... Walked a good deal. Read Spanish Gold by Geo A. Birmingham ... Bridge ... Dolly home from S. Africa. Caught with light on a... William Thomas George A. Birmingham Spanish Gold Print : Book
