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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, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read ...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908: 'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] & as last year, at about the same time, it has just s...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterA Room with a ViewPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909: 'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & paper [...] I read your paper but to tell the actual tr...Leonard Woolf G. E. Moore'Professor James' "Pragmatism"'Print: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Guy de Maupassant'tale'Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Earl of CromerModern EgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911: 'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S. [Gaye] is going to marry.' ...Leonard Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan abou...Leonard Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan abou...Leonard Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyLes Freres KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan abou...Edgar Woolf George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912: 'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can see that you might write something astonishingly goo...Leonard Woolf Virginia Stephenfiction MSSManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912: 'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than your little Spanish dictionary. It is always in my ...Leonard Woolf Spanish dictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolates & reading & looking at pictures, including her own...Virginia Woolf The Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Virginia Woolf The Life of Mrs Humphry WardPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Leonard Woolf Poor Law Minority ReportPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913: 'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have...Maurice B. Wright Leonard WoolfThe Village in the JunglePrint: Book
1900-1945Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913: 'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise Virgins] [...] the reading of which has given me mor...Marie Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise VirginsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'Giles Lytton Strachey Lytton StracheyLife of Cardinal ManningManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf Hurrell FroudeRemainsPrint: Book


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