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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'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".especially [...] Neil Munro's instalment' Joseph Conrad Neil MunroChildren of the Tempest Part 2Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That is also a good review. Upon the whole the "Press" is ...Joseph Conrad Spectator and various newspapers and periodicalsPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than agree with him, that the passage about Pyramus and T...Edith Sitwell Sacheverall SitwellAll Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical FantasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your very great kindness in sending it to me. Even though...Edith Sitwell E M ForsterThe Eternal MomentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole thing made one feel like a bird that has blundered ...Edith Sitwell Robert NicholsDon JuanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'Antonia White [unknown]['trash']Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Florence MacCunnSir Walter Scott's FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White J. Soames[article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, ...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the ...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901: 'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over an immense fire with a wind roaring round the house...Leonard Woolf The Book of JobPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901: 'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell you that I did live last week an hour or two -- whic...Leonard Woolf Charles MarriottThe ColumnPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refusing to fly London with the rest of the world [...] I...Leonard Woolf Honore De BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.'The 'X' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts of 500 lines each, it will not be the longest play on...Leonard Woolf Thomas KydThe Spanish TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it is what I know to be genius. And I feel badly that ...Edith Sitwell John CollierHis Monkey wife; or, Married to a ChimpPrint: Book


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