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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'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (C...Winifred Agnes Moore Leon DaudetClemenceauPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Leon GozlanLa Queue du chien d'AlcibiadePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Léon Lanzac de LaborieParis sous NapoléonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but ther...Sydney Smith Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me to have had too wave...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole politician .. as he gathe...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham...Gerald Moore Leonard MerrickA Chair on the BoulevardPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which ...Virginia Woolf Leonard Merrick Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15 [...] He read Janet "The Three Jews".' Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf'The Three Jews'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remar...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-19457 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & th...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic...Unknown
1900-1945Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913: 'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have...Maurice B. Wright Leonard WoolfThe Village in the JunglePrint: Book
1900-1945Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913: 'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise Virgins] [...] the reading of which has given me mor...Marie Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise VirginsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940: 'I read your article on the Politician and the Intellectual, in the New States...Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes Leonard Woolfarticle on 'the politician and the intellectual'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce af...Charles Temple Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in AfricaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912: 'Dear Woolf 'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I know of no other magazine that will pay for erection...Edward Morgan Forster Leonard WoolfstoryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Leonard Llewellyn Bulkeley WilliamsMinor Maladies and Their TreatmentPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'George Gordon Lord Byron Leonard Simonde de SismondiunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very little. His "Marianna" has power in its way [...] but...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard Sylvain Jules SandeauMariannaPrint: Book
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Leonardo Da Vinci[Painting]Print: Book, Pamphlet


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