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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'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparently lost, unless one was "Phyllis and Rosamond", dated...Madge Vaughan Virginia Stephenshort storiesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Ernest RenanCahiers de JeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalmed in a block of smooth amber: it is not unpleasan...Virginia Stephen Henry JamesThe American ScenePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling to the remotest part of my brain, and setting up a ...Virginia Stephen G. E. MoorePrincipia EthicaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Virginia Woolf 'new novels'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Leonard Woolf Arnold BennettAn Old Wives TalePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse enormous vanity, which at last made him unapproachab...Virginia Woolf George MeredithlettersUnknown
1900-1945'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] il...Virginia Woolf Clive BellArtPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disa...Virginia Woolf Henry James'works'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disa...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Insulted and InjuredPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scra...Virginia Woolf Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scra...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
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 Sophocles ElectraPrint: 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
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best place in the world for reading Shakespeare. Asheham...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book


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