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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Oscar Wilde Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905: 'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & sign my name. I play tennis, dine, read Henry James ...Leonard Woolf Henry James Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905: 'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to travel for two nights & a day in a bullock waggon through...Leonard Woolf William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Alfred de Vigny Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic mani...Leonard Woolf Denis Diderot Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Joris Karl Huysmans Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Henry James Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I believe I was coming for a month as A[ssistant]G[over...Leonard Woolf Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906: 'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [John Maynard] Keynes [following letter from Strachey] a...Leonard Woolf Jean de la Bruyere Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishme...Leonard Woolf Turgenev Print: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899: 'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. I can't think how Maimie [i.e. Mary Aylward, family ...Edward Morgan Forster Jabez Bunting Dimbleby Print: Book
1700-1799'[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he would not deign to lift his eyes, or regard me'James Hogg  Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910: 'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat Arnold. he's not as good as he thinks, but better th...Edward Morgan Forster Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Alice Perrin Print: Book
1850-1899'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.Bertha M. Pollard William Watson Print: Book
1850-1899'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'.Alfred Rawlings William Watson Print: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1900-1945'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'Ralph Glasser  Print: Book


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