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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
4. The subject ...		Margaret Dilks Vita Sackville WestThe LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'Winifred Holtby Vita Sackville-WestThe LandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being ful...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestSeducers in EcuadorManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand though - That's my only criticism - you've left (I daresa...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranManuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.
1900-1945'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold; and I think I see how you may develop differently....Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCollected PoemsUnknown
1900-1945Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestOn the LakeUnknown
1900-1945'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a work of art - or would you?) - but I dipped in and r...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCountry NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestHeritagePrint: Book
1900-1945' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language. Such power! Such power! ...Lord Curzon Vita Sackville-WestGrey WethersPrint: Book
1900-1945'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. I simpered. He took them out into the garden, sprea...Robert Bridges Vita Sackville-WestThe LandManuscript: Sheet, Proofs
1900-1945'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thoug...Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-WestThe LandUnknown
1900-1945'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...) Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranPrint: Book
1900-1945'I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it. "By God!" he said, "this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives one the slightest idea what it's like." ' Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranUnknown
1900-1945'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to my life.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestThe LandUnknown
1900-1945'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestSolitudeUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Katherine S. Evans Vita Sackville-WestBees on the LandUnknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Vittorio Alfieri[Tragedies]Print: Book
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1800-1849		"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ...Maria Edgeworth Vittorio AlfieriMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Vittorio Alfieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriMyrrhaPrint: Book


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