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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'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are, if Cum...Samuel Johnson Richard Cumberland[Odes]Print: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the numbers and the expression. Francis has done it the...Samuel Johnson Horace[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as l...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Gray[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as l...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Cumberland[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as l...Elizabeth Montagu Richard Cumberland[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gray's Odes as he can make them, Ay, replied She, as l...Elizabeth Montagu Thomas Gray[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Samuel Johnson Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Mr Seward Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


5. Eight anonymo...

Charles E. Stansfield Henry M. Wallis[Of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Of...Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'Samuel Pepys [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'Will Hewer [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Our Adjutant told us the history of the 1st K.R.R [King's Royal Rifles] in this war, by a diary from one of their officers. They got on fine until they went into action ...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknown[officer's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		unknown members of the XII Book Club unknown/various [official forms]Unknown
1850-1899'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas...John Paton [Old and New Testament]Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Dorothy Brain Anon [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eatin...Unknown
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek [unknown][old plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson [Old Testament]Print: Book
1800-1849'write - read old voyages.'Mary Godwin [unknown][old voyages]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][old-fashioned theological works]Print: Book
1800-1849My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...Anne Lutton [old-school novels]Print: Book


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