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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
 
1900-1945Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'Virginia Woolf 'Lord Chaplin's life'Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldThe Letters of Katherine MansfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All...Virginia Woolf Stendhal 'on Rome'Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26th September ?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus? A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. Had an hour or two at the piano and showed form. ...Gerald Moore "Bartimeus"The Long TrickPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Charles GrevilleMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Henry Festing JonesSamuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Me...Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at em...Virginia Woolf Matthew ArnoldThyrsisPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[inister] to broadcast at 11.15 [makes various brief ob...Virginia Woolf R. H. Tawney Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remar...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot from the 18th Century. Mistressly in her winding up...Virginia Woolf Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but ...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'.Virginia Woolf Thomas HardyThe Trumpet-MajorPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues that Tolstoy's commands were for men of looser life t...Gerald Shove Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [......John Maynard Keynes H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [......John Maynard Keynes George Bernard Shawletter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which father lugged home [from library] for me [...] He mus...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; ...Leonard Woolf Ethel SmythA Three-Legged Tour in GreecePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf Max EastmanThe Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of SciencePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Book


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