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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'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being ful...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestSeducers in EcuadorManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.Virginia Woolf Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Sco...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Fanny Kemble'Life'Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the time pass much better than the Pall Mall Gazette.' ...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Gilbert MurrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.' Virginia Woolf Leslie Stephencritical work on PopePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15 [...] He read Janet "The Three Jews".' Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf'The Three Jews'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remar...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 13 February 1915: 'After luncheon [...] I went to a concert at the Queen's Hall [...] I was annoyed by a young man & woman who took advantage of the music to p...'young man and woman'A. E. HousmanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.' Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him without a shudder -- the cause being I think partly the...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...] I came home with my book, which does not seem a ver...Virginia Woolf Rosalind MurrayThe Leading NotePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life. She read me a passage [of her diary...Ottoline Morrell Ottoline MorrelljournalManuscript: Codex
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Leonard Woolf Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude TuckwellLife of Sir Charles Wentworth DilkePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
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


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