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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
 
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Le...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Le...Virginia Woolf Leopardi[poem]Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Georgia].'Roger Fry unknown'French poetry'Print: Book
1900-1945'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author is better known for his "Scrambles among the Alps", b...Eric Shipton Edward WhymperTravels among the Great Andes of the EquatorPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) much refreshed. This is by way of justifying these many...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to m...Virginia Woolf Florence HardyLife of Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey Cust FaberA Character Study of the Oxford MovementPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'.Virginia Woolf TurgenevunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].' Virginia Woolf Arsene HoussayeConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had...Eric Shipton George D. AbrahamSwiss Mountain ClimbsPrint: Book
1900-1945Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind...Virginia Woolf Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'Virginia Woolf Margot OxfordMore MemoriesPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'Virginia Woolf Mary Agnes HamiltonSidney and Beatrice WebbPrint: Book
1900-19455 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half asleep; through the rift reading Steen (author of Stal...Virginia Woolf Marguerite SteenHugh Walpole: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman w...Eric Shipton Hugo's UrduPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You...Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Winifred Holtbystudy of Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the previous year and about whom nothing more had been...Expedition membersMaurice Wilson[diary]Manuscript: Codex, Diary
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Eric Shipton Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Peter R. Oliver unknownSeventeenth Century VersePrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Charles B.M. Warren Michel Eyquem (de) MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book


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