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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Em...Lady Ottoline Morrell Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Real ThingPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe PupilPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hardworking review for her...'Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: 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 Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent us or we him? He uses [italics]all[end italics] our...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: 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
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Laura Mary Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henry James difficult to understand, though it [italics]...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Middle YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscure -- find it much nearer the work of other writers ...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Sense of the PastPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassadors, with comments including 'Pattern exquisitely wo...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from which cover topics including the writings of Pater, Kipl...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Letters of Henry James (vol.I)Print: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] talk, - oh so slowly - as we stroll arm in arm in the W...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesPortraits of placesPrint: Book
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was based on the story of Mr. Skipsey, told to Carry [i.e. ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of the American family who so much reminded us of the Dos...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his sister-in-law]. Feb 14 1910"; "Feb 21 1924". George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern wa...Print: Book
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf: "I used to note down sentences for my history, tha...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Henry James Print: Unknown


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