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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 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Ex-Detective Sergeant B. LeesonLost London. The Memoirs of an East End DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPreface, Portrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Andre GidePages de Journal, 1929-1932Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskel...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth GaskellWives and DaughtersPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You...Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Winifred Holtbystudy of Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Georgia].'Roger Fry unknown'French poetry'Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of noted Novelist on the poster. And I thought of Hugh...Virginia Woolf announcement of death of Stella BensonPrint: Poster
1900-1945Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which she can't re-read -- Too melancholy & sordid -- & the...Janet Case Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf anon mock epitaph for Virginia WoolfPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf Henry Havelock EllisMy LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & ...Virginia Woolf Gilbert SeldesReview of James Joyce, UlyssesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme there (1932) laid down for treating decline of fame. T...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfDiary (17 May 1932)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too sloppy & depending upon the charm of the Irish voice. Ye...Virginia Woolf Desmond MacCarthyDramaPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has just passed into Germany. L[eonard]. is in the customs...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceAaron's RodPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Thursday, 1 March 1827: 'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Histori...Walter Scott Horace WalpoleHistoric Doubts on Richard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 13 March 1828: 'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so I was obliged to be idle all the evening. But though...Walter Scott Gerald GriffinTales of the Munster FestivalsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 15 November 1827: 'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for Constable's Miscellany. It is really a lively work a...Walter Scott Robert ChambersHistory of the Rebellion 1745-6Print: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 16 March 1826: 'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the worst of her compositions.'Walter Scott Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 19 October 1826: 'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the Peninsular War. It is very good indeed, honest Englis...Walter Scott Robert SoutheyHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: Book


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