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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 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 D. H. LawrenceWomen in LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Party], and don't mean to. I've read Bliss; and it w...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922: 'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too. I have him on the table. His pages are cut. Leona...Leonard Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy. Last night I started on vol 2 [A...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleursPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.' ...Virginia Woolf Marcel Proust Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.' ...Virginia Woolf Rimbaud  Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and likin...Gwen Raverat Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Unknown, In proof copy
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of English literature? Walter Raleigh calls Shakespear...Virginia Woolf Walter RaleighLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gerald Brenan, 3 October 1926: 'Ralph said he had read enough of your novel [A Holiday by the Sea] to perceive a masterpiece.' ...Ralph Partridge Gerald BrenanA Holiday by the SeaUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a lot: you have a rich dusky attic of a mind.' ...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-WestKnole and the SackvillesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'. ...Virginia Woolf Marcel Proust Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'. ...Virginia Woolf Henry James Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'. ...Virginia Woolf Fyodor Dostoevsky Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've...Virginia Woolf Honore de Balzac Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've...Virginia Woolf Leo Tolstoy Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929: 'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new room -- this we have been seeing about for 3 months...Virginia Woolf Ronald Firbank Print: Book



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