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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...William Henry Fox Talbot Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch Tub played golf. Dick caddied for him. I read Ivanhoe to the Babs and we went to the Post for stamps.'Verena Pennefather Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Old Plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Old plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission...Jane Austen Walter Scott [anon]review of EmmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - t...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter VilliersSir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I am reading "Puppets into Scotland" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick'Thomas Kitching Walter WilkinsonPuppets into ScotlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the world is plunged into - to appreciate it as I should h...Thomas Kitching Walter WilkinsonPuppets into ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes which he describes so well. Mr Keppel Craven address...Charlotte Bury Walter Arthur Keppel Craven Unknown
1900-1945'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definite...William Soutar Walter De La Mare[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Celia Burrow Walter de la Mare'Sunken Garden'Print: Book
1850-1899'Pollock, I must say, has written a handsome and discriminating notice; he thinks too well of the "Pavilion"; but most of what he says is good as criticism and very kindl...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Herries Pollock[review in The Saturday Review]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Mary E. Robson Walter Russell BrainSpoonbillManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, i...William Wordsworth Walter Savage LandorSimoneidaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her s...Virginia Stephen Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Walter Savage LandorImaginary Conversations Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.Elizabeth Edminson Walter Savage Landor Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.Members of the XII Book ClubWalter Savage Landor Print: Book
1900-1945'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped great things — Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters call...Clive Staples Lewis Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Walther RauschenbuschChristianity and the Social CrisisPrint: Book


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