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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1900-1945Friday 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 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & ...Virginia Woolf Howard Springreview of Virginia Woolf, The YearsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him without a shudder -- the cause being I think partly the...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrownelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting knotted book. Its queer that diaries now pullulate. No...Virginia Woolf Andre GideAndre Gide's Journal 1885-1939Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothing so much upsets & demoralises as this looking at on...Virginia Woolf Ruth GruberVirginia Woolf: A StudyPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: 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
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Francis SteegmullerFlaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Jacques Emile BlancheMore Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.' ...Virginia Woolf unknown'book on Children & Sex'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) much refreshed. This is by way of justifying these many...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivalence as Freud calls it. (I'm gulping up Freud).'Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: 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 Alexis de TocquevilleSouvenirsPrint: Book


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