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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
 
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so magnificent that I cant write myself within its arc'...Virginia Woolf Marcel Proust Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the num...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustSodom et GonorrhePrint: Book
1900-1945'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become his...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise or a theorbo!) so I have written a few letters, - p...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-194518 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [......Roger Fry Marcel ProustDu Cote de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more. I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic man, all frowsty in bed till evening, and preoccupied ...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Marcel Proust[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future,...Antonia White Marcel Proust[works]Print: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouve.Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustLe Temps RetrouvePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust: "Bought Du Cote de Chez Swann at Marseilles and no...Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustDu Cote de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of com...		Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945I remember one morning, early, I found him in his study laughing uproariously: he was reading, in Proust's "Pastiches et Mélanges", the pastiche of Flaubert (and he had a...Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustPastiches et MélangesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I ha...Henry James Marcelin MarbotMemoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and Ann Temple. Anyhow-if there's a war I shall be in it, ...Marceline d'AlroyThe d'Alroy DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good , but is not "fort".' Thence follows five lines of m...Joseph Conrad Marcelle TinayreLa Maison du PechéPrint: 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 Marcellin PelletNapoléon à l'île d'ElbePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 21 November 1846: 'We have seen your professor once since you left us [...] when he came in one evening & caught...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningMarchese Massimo Tapparelli D'AzeglioNiccolo de' LapiPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course: but He prudent Creature, insisted on my burning it,...Hester Lynch Thrale Marco Capello[sonnet about Piozzi]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book


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