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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
 
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknownbiographical worksPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.Gerald Gould unknownnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf unknown'sporting memoirs'Print: 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 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf unknownbiographiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the gorge, or valley, at Delphi, under an olive tree, sit...Leonard Woolf unknownGreek grammarPrint: 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
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Peter R. Oliver unknownSeventeenth Century VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...Charles B.M. Warren unknown[Physiology textbook]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying...Vita Sackville-West unknown[Elizabethan lyrics]Print: Book
1900-1945'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in th...Eric Shipton unknown[books of natural history]Print: Book
1850-1899'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Him...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
1850-1899'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even w...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake off a blackness, a blankness. Now (10 to 1) after w...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of James BoswellPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'Virginia Woolf unknown'Italian novel'Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly.'Virginia Woolf unknownGreek versePrint: Book
1700-1799'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had made lash to for me close by the Cabin Stove, with m...Janet Schaw unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sent me), with extracts from the abominable "case". It ...Elizabeth Barrett unknownarticle on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet M...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and e...Thomas Carlyle unknown[German novel]Print: Book


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