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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well...Third class railway passengers The Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.' ...Virginia Woolf unknown'book on Children & Sex'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) much refreshed. This is by way of justifying these many...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivalence as Freud calls it. (I'm gulping up Freud).'Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: 'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has written a book of poetry, Tales of Chivalry and Romance...Walter Scott Captain George LongmoreTales of Chivalry and RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott Henry WeberMetrical RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott RitsonAncient English Metrical RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 12 June 1829: 'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my novel so concluded the evening idly enough.'Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 14 September 1827: 'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and accomodating that every third word is a concession -- ...Walter Scott 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 20 February 1829: 'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not seen the light. They are considerably curious but I w...Walter Scott The Revd. C. H. HartshorneAncient Metrical TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very intimately at the beginning of the century [...] He ...Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl MintopoemsUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 28 March 1828: 'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a ringing. He really is entitled to the name of an Anti...Walter Scott James ThomsonTales of an AntiquaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 3 August 1827: 'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without interest, for Pryce Gordon though a bit of a roue, is ...Walter Scott Pryce GordonMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 9 December 1825: 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson [...] She must have been assis...Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of ...Alfred Tennyson Miss Rundlepoem on ItalyUnknown


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