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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 am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'Virginia Woolf Julia Mary Cartwright AdyThe Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'Virginia Woolf J.W. MackailLife of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'Virginia Woolf Rhoda BroughtonNot Wisely but Too WellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'Virginia Woolf The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for M...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hardworking review for her...'Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific eloquence--that is eloquence appealing not to the pass...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells The Discovery of the FuturePrint: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]'Joseph Conrad David Meldrum(An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am profoundly impressed with the achievement of style.[...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettA Man from the North.Print: Book
1900-1945'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression o...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordBushwhacking and Other SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Making of Modern VersePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger...Antonia White Charlotte d'Erlanger[unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.'Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)RossettiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid. Of the thing itself I think but little, so that her merit shines with the greater lustre...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful.[...] I do not want to deface the pages tho' I have...Joseph Conrad Elizabeth Martindale Margaret HeverManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant[Stories] Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it up...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ["Success"] had produced on me.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamSuccessPrint: Book


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