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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'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised ...Antonia White Hoare[article on Rimbaud]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised ...Antonia White [n/a]VoguePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, no...Antonia White Emily ColemanTigron, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Antonia White William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Emily Coleman William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. At...Antonia White Andre BretonNadjaPrint: Book
1900-1945'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees n...George Barker Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDejection: An OdePrint: Book
1900-1945'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.Antonia White Basil NicholsonBusiness is BusinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear, so solid, so modest, so alive. When I read a book l...Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonplace.'James Lees-Milne Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding always on books and fancy'.Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ...Antonia White Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ... [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson Andrew Marvell[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson John Keats[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and complacent exhibitionism; her criticism shrewd but patro...Antonia White Laura Riding[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic...Antonia White Katherine Mansfield[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about hersel...Antonia White Christine Botting[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'Susan Glossop Antonia WhiteFrost at MidnightPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said it articulated a great many of his own feelings. At f...Antonia White Antonia White[diary]Manuscript: Codex, green notebook


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