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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Alfred de Vigny Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of ParnellPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of RussellPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Voltaire La Dictionnaire PhilosophiquePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic mani...Leonard Woolf Denis Diderot Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent us or we him? He uses [italics]all[end italics] our...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by ...Leonard Woolf Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et alEuphrosneUnknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer k...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Voltaire LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Joris Karl Huysmans Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Henry James Print: Book
1900-1945'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So many groups of distinct, yet intertwining lives, all so...Antonia White Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature...Antonia White Harriet Martineau[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is madde...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense') "There may well be intense consciousness in the total absence of rationality. Such consciousness is sugge...Antonia White George SantayanaReason in Common SensePrint: Book
1900-1945'[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817) "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in unce...Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'.Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Field[book on child psychology]Print: Book


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