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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 George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, fear of life. They really cared for each other. She i...Antonia White George Sand[letters to and from Flaubert]Print: Book
1900-1945'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attempt to relate day and night. She [Virginia Woolf] lays...Antonia White Virginia WoolfJacob's RoomPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journal I turn for some light' [she hopes Green's methods...Antonia White Julien Green[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White George Tyrrell[Jesuit writings]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White [unknown][Catholic texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has fallen for a young man, after a long time feeling 'immune...Antonia White Antonia White[diaries]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping something inside '[end italics].'Antonia White Antonia White[diaries]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand the nature of Catholicism]Antonia White [n/a][Gospels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White [unknown][writings about religion, Church History, etc]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White Walter HyltonScala Perfectionis, or Ladder of PerfectionPrint: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White Julian of NorwichSixteen Revelations of Divine Love Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906: 'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds]. It seems, though I have only had time to ...Leonard Woolf Roger FryThe Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906: 'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading Society. We read As You Like It on Friday. It was no...Shakespeare Reading SocietyWilliam ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I believe I was coming for a month as A[ssistant]G[over...Leonard Woolf Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906: 'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [John Maynard] Keynes [following letter from Strachey] a...Leonard Woolf Jean de la Bruyere Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah...Leonard Woolf Sir George Otto TrevelyanThe Competition WallahPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907: 'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an astonishing & irritating production? What a success he...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterThe Longest JourneyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907: 'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricus. It seems to me rather good, except that as a book...Leonard Woolf Francis CornfordThucydides MythistoricusPrint: Book


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