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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
 
1900-1945Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard;...Virginia Woolf Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in prog...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.Boen Hawkesford Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Ti...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Ti...Virginia Woolf unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly t...Thomas Stearns Eliot George BarkerpoemsUnknown
1900-1945Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs." Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her ...Theodora Bosanquet Virginia WoolfThree GuineasPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' Virginia Woolf Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I....Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Reading Elle et Lui, a very good best seller [by George S...Virginia Woolf George SandElle et LuiPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man...Virginia Woolf Guy ChapmanBeckfordPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually over lapping [sic]. If a new poem, what should I say? I...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyMont BlancPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] O...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'Leonard Woolf Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [Bell, nephew] came to tea; read Young;s French travel...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How ca...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfThe YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.Virginia Woolf Francois-Rene Vicomte de ChateaubriandunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'Virginia Woolf Sophocles unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf unknownbiographiesPrint: Book


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