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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 read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - 'Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in th...Vita Sackville-West Andre GideMemoirsUnknown
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper: "The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...." It bears an unpleasant resemblance to The Land, doesn't it? But it has its good mom...Vita Sackville-West William CowperThe Task, Part III (The Garden)Print: Book
1900-1945'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who had lately brought out her memoirs. Mrs Ward had bee...Mary Augusta Ward Julia Ward HoweReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'Vita Sackville-West Helen WaddellThe Wandering ScholarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together,) and I am ordering a copy of Time and Tide.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Sun and the FishPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague...Vita Sackville-West William Butler YeatsLeda and the SwanPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have heard nothing more; so it may be untrue.'Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-19457 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & th...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic...Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Sydney Waterlow Sydney Waterlowautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Clive Bell Clive Bellautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bellautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Duncan Grant Duncan Grantautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Molly MacCarthy Molly MacCarthyautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Duncan Grant Duncan Grantautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Roger Fry Roger Fryautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown


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