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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, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent us or we him? He uses [italics]all[end italics] our...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: 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 Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905: 'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & sign my name. I play tennis, dine, read Henry James ...Leonard Woolf Henry James Print: 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 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, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees & masses of wonderful creepers [...] I have been read...Leonard Woolf Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer k...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadPrint: Book
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, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by ...Leonard Woolf Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et alEuphrosneUnknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts of 500 lines each, it will not be the longest play on...Leonard Woolf Thomas KydThe Spanish TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Leonard Woolf The Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Thoby Stephen 'What is Sport?'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic mani...Leonard Woolf Denis Diderot 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, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Alfred de Vigny Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of ParnellPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of RussellPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Voltaire La Dictionnaire PhilosophiquePrint: 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


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