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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
 
1900-1945Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our...Katherine Mansfield James JoyceUlyssesManuscript: Typescript
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightn't be more in the great ...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDr FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'. Leslie Stephen Henry John NewboltDrake's DrumPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How ca...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfThe YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I could follow, about Cambridge youth; their philosop...John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes'Memoir Club' paperManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[inister] to broadcast at 11.15 [makes various brief ob...Virginia Woolf R. H. Tawney Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Francis SteegmullerFlaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Jacques Emile BlancheMore Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well...Third class railway passengers The Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Gerald HeardPain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and...Print: Book
1900-1945'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been so kind as to give me. Will you allow me to offer ...Arnold Bennett VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Duchess of WrexePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradVictoryPrint: Book


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