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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
 
1900-19452 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & othe...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-19454 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the exception of Alix who sat still as a statue reading one of Berty Russell's ...Alix Sargant-Florence Bertrand RussellunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll have to explain verbally some day. Unless you can gu...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfunknownUnknown
1900-19456 June 1918: 'I've seen Alix [...] She is able to conceive the possibility of one day finding some book to read. She has tried Bertie's mathematics, relinquished it, bu...Alix Sargant-Florence Bertrand RussellunknownPrint: Book
1900-194523 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian poetry, & has read Lytton's book, & condemns the Victorians.' ...John Waller Hills Lytton StracheyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett Florence BarclayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I....Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I rem...Virginia Stephen Thomas Love PeacockunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett Charles GarviceunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey LucanunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanation of it.'Vita Sackville-West Herbert ReadunknownUnknown
1900-1945Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'Virginia Woolf Sophocles unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from...Lytton Strachey Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but ...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1900-194518 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'. Roger Fry Julien BendaunknownPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading Dryden.'Clive Bell John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book


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