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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 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 John Henry NewmanApologia pro vita suaPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916: 'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laugh until I cried twice, once at "where he remained fo...Leonard Woolf Lytton StracheyLife of Dr ArnoldManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy journey. Train from Paris packed & if I had not started ...Leonard Woolf report of death of Samuel GarrettPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after ...Leonard Woolf Dorothy OsborneThe Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930: 'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I cannot stop at twice & go on rereading until something fr...Leonard Woolf T. S. EliotAsh WednesdayPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Horace SatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Classical Greek textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard and Virginia WoolfRobert TrevelyanEpistlePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf H. W. Fowler and F. G. FowlerThe King's EnglishPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf Marie Corelliextracts from novelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924: 'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hands en route for a reviewer last week, and it looked s...Leonard Woolf John ClareMadrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems wr...Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which I had already read with great interest. I think we ...Leonard Woolf Frank Hardie'Youth, Socialism and Peace'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940: 'I read your article on the Politician and the Intellectual, in the New States...Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes Leonard Woolfarticle on 'the politician and the intellectual'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce af...Charles Temple Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in AfricaPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishme...Leonard Woolf Turgenev Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishme...Leonard Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans HigsonOf an OrchardPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans John BurroughsUnder the Apple TreesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her ser...Ralph Glasser Olivia ManningBalkan Trilogy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited ...Manuscript: Unknown


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