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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'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 Humphrey JenningsLittle town in FrancePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future,...Antonia White Marcel Proust[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'Tom Hopkinson Antonia WhiteLost Traveller, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Tom Hopkinson Antonia White[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Antonia White Tom Hopkinson[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I ...Antonia White Peter Warlock[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading Francis Thompson's poems that day (my mother had bo...Antonia White Francis Thompson[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Ca...Antonia White John WoolmanJournal of John Woolman Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black ...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished it, achieved it' [alluding to story about Rilke's de...Antonia White Rainer Maria Rilke[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['lives of painters']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['journals of poets']Print: Book
1900-1945'[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook Free spirit liable to possession or obsession... Debauchery is the most frozen isolation to which man can condemn hi...Antonia White Eric Siepmann[notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Tom HopkinsonI have been DrownedUnknown
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Djuna BarnesNightwoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Emily [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation']Unknown
1900-1945'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same function as the psycho-analyst. The psycho-analyst cu...Antonia White Fyodor DostoevskyBrothers Karamazov, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not very agreeable things'.Antonia White Frances Grigson[letters to Tom Hopkinson]Manuscript: Letter


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