√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Frederic Harrison | Meaning of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'May and Death' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'Prospice' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Burns as song writer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a biography of Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | George Borrow | Bible in Spain, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Alfred Russel Wallace | [psychical writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on child study] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Christmas at Sea' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Tropic Rain' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Vagabond' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the spirit world] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the mind and its training] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Algernon Blackwood | Garden of Survival, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |