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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me when I returned here on Thursday. ( I was delayed i...Edith Sitwell E M ForsterAlexandria: A History and GuidePrint: Book
1900-1945'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently the Babylonian goddess of love, war and fertility. Pe...E S StevensIshtarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ludlow's memoirs'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Ludlow's Memoirs'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of t...Print: Book
1850-1899'Wych Hazel'Sarah Good E. WetherellWych HazelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three times in a previous existence.'Thomas Kitching E. C. BentleyTrent's Last CasePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue    Dec 19th 1930
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]<...		E. Dorothy Brain E. Dorothy Brain[Contribution to a symposium in the role of 'a Sal...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."Leslie Stephen E. E. HaleJames Russell Lowell and his friendsPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since yesterday, when I lay, mumbling the bones of Dodo: if...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonDodoPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonAs We Were: A Victorian Peep-ShowPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonFinal Edition, an Informal AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945I am just now reading Benson's life of Queen Victoria and can't help feeling that if we had old Lord Palmerston now he would probably close the canal and have done ...Freya Stark E. F. BensonQueen VictoriaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828: 'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.' Elizabeth Barrett E. H. BarkerThe Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Aut...Print: Book
1900-1945[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless tortur...Edward Morgan Forster E. H. CarrMichael BakuninPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Janet Rawlings E. H. YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the letter you wrote about the [unfavourable] review [in T...Henry James E. L. Godkinreview of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry J...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Mary S. Stansfield E. L. WoodwardShort JourneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remember." Rest of conversation not recorded, above remar...E. M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer k...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadPrint: Book


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