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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. How delicate & pure & musical & uncorrupt he & Colerid...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are...Virginia Woolf Sir Leslie Stephenessay on ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in Aug. 1940 -- that the air raids are now at their pre...Virginia Woolf ScrutinyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now. Even t...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now [...] I...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] He cant move an inch from the glare of his own person...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London Library atmosphere effused. Turned me against all l...Virginia Woolf F. L. LucasStudies French and EnglishPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen A...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinit...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de France vol.15Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinit...Virginia Woolf G. M. TrevelyanHistory of EnglandPrint: 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
1900-1945Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I suffer so in that light?'Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf'The Leaning Tower'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet making.'Virginia Woolf Herbert ReadAnnals of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiography this morning at breakfast. Little boys making sand...Virginia Woolf Herbert ReadAnnals of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at em...Virginia Woolf Matthew ArnoldThyrsisPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, London was burning. 8 of my city churches destroyed, ...Virginia Woolf anonaccount of the Great Fire of LondonPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too sloppy & depending upon the charm of the Irish voice. Ye...Virginia Woolf Desmond MacCarthyDramaPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[inister] to broadcast at 11.15 [makes various brief ob...Virginia Woolf R. H. Tawney Print: Book


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