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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyCommonplace BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyLetter Book, 1573-1580Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all sense that one differed from another. I am reading...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: 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
1900-1945Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey Cust FaberA Character Study of the Oxford MovementPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, &...Virginia Woolf George BorrowWild WalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were wea...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] ...Virginia Woolf George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much...Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronLord Byron's CorrespondencePrint: 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
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse enormous vanity, which at last made him unapproachab...Virginia Woolf George MeredithlettersUnknown
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf George PuttenhamThe Arte of English PoesiePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and mellow and satisf...Virginia Woolf George SandMemoires (vol 5)Print: Book
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
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf George Bernard ShawPen Portraits and ReviewsPrint: Book
1900-19452 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'Virginia Woolf George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Gerald HeardPain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and...Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gig...Virginia Woolf Gerard Manley Hopkins[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown


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