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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 Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Reginald H. Robson Arnold BennettThe TitlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Muriel Bowman-Smith Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Janet Rawlings Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Thomas C. Elliott Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Francis Pollard Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		E. Dorothy Brain Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Howard Smith Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Florence Reynolds Arnold BennettThe TitleUnknown
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...Dorothy Brain Alfred NoyesThe Torch BearersPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Howard Smith William Fryer HarveyThe TortoisePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous present of "The Tory Lover" [her historical novel]. ...Henry James Sarah Orne JewettThe Tory LoverPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Morning lark ascends on high And with its music greets the Sky... [6 lines]'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CombeThe Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the PicturesqueUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon William Harrison AinsworthThe Tower of LondonPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 April 1849:

'I took up Leigh Hunt's book "The Town" with the impression that it would be interesting only to Londoners...		Charlotte Brontë Leigh HuntThe TownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. 'Vol 2 Agamemnon. N.B. A Speech of Cassandra. This is the state of man: in pr...Frances Hamilton AeschylusThe Tragedies of AeschylusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote A...Gerald Moore Edmond HolmesThe Tragedy of EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just read Lord Esher's book about Lord Kitchener which is a very interesting human document, isn't it. What a very big figure he just failed to be. Yet he did play ...Gertrude Bell Reginald (Viscount) EsherThe Tragedy of Lord KitchenerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.' ...Claire Clairmont John FletcherThe Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Bro...Print: Book
1800-1849?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would conf...Charles Dickens Henry FieldingThe Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death o...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I got up had a cup of tea & then read several tracts & some on the training of children by Mrs Booth ...'James Bennetts Williams William BoothThe Training of ChildrenPrint: Unknown


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