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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
 
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf Jessie ChambersD. H. Lawrence: A Personal RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Woolf John BaileyJohn Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and DiariesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Woolf Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf Sir Charles MallettAnthony Hope and His BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfA Room of One's OwnPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward Herbert Spencer Print: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this lat...Mary Augusta Ward George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I me...Edith Sitwell August StrindbergThe InfernoUnknown
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Marcel Proust[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen E.M. ForsterCelestial Omnibus, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen Richard MiddletonGhost Ship, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand [Rolls of Parliament]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Janet Penrose Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'... I read seriously only on week-ends.... "Comus" being finished, its place was taken by Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" which I got half through. It is an amazing wor...Clive Staples Lewis Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I think it is such a fine book and I was deeply moved b...Edith Sitwell Sydney SchiffPrince HempseedPrint: Book


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