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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
 
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues that Tolstoy's commands were for men of looser life t...Gerald Shove Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Ben JonsonmasquesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Captain Ronald A. Hopwood'The Old Way'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forw...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were wea...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'Benedict Nicolson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the num...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustSodom et GonorrhePrint: Book
1900-1945'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become his...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise or a theorbo!) so I have written a few letters, - p...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)' Vita Sackville-West Louis de RobertComment debuta Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-194510 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.Virginia Woolf Ezra PoundGaudier-Brzeska. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Lytton Strachey newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194527 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.'Desmond MacCarthy William Makepeace ThackerayMemoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Unknown
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 John, Viscount MorleyunknownPrint: Book
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
1900-19455 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon reading in the garden. I happened to read Wordsworth; the...Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'Print: Book


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