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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
 
1900-1945Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'Virginia Woolf Sophocles TrachiniaePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large leafy silent Georgian refined: so too no. 41 [...] Talk...Virginia Woolf Naomi MitchisonReview of W. H. Auden, The OratorsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thursday 21 February 1828: 'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings, which shows great knowledge of life in a certain s...Walter Scott Theodore HookSayings and Doings (third series)Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Gilbert MurrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in your next book". She had just re-read The Waves: ma...Alice Ritchie Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching...Virginia Woolf A. B. GoldenveizerTalks with TolstoiPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching...Virginia Stephen Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life. She read me a passage [of her diary...Ottoline Morrell Ottoline MorrelljournalManuscript: Codex
1900-1945Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevigneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne...Virginia Woolf Siegfried SassoonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].' Virginia Woolf Arsene HoussayeConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Em...Philip Morrell Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Em...Lady Ottoline Morrell Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [r...Leonard and Virginia Woolf newspaper report of US presidential messagePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beating up now & again to poetry; but I am as usual appal...Virginia Woolf Rosamund LehmannA Note in MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lovers first, then the last I seem to span the measure ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Emily Hilda YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Abbe DunnetunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book


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