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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestOn the LakeUnknown
1900-1945Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.' Virginia Woolf Leslie Stephencritical work on PopePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Le...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Le...Virginia Woolf Leopardi[poem]Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -- an emotion different from any other.' ...Virginia Woolf Sophocles AntigonePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a story; & then heaps it with the dreariest, most confus...Virginia Woolf Molly HamiltonunknownPrint: 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
1900-1945Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'Virginia Woolf Clive Bell[journalism] Unknown
1900-1945Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was tr...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyWhat Then Must We Do?Print: Book
1900-1945Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind...Virginia Woolf Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: 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
1900-1945Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a classic, I am curbed & -- not castrated; no, the opp...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranPrint: 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
1900-1945Saturday 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 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [G...Virginia Woolf Ben JonsonEpicoene, or The Silent WomanPrint: 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
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of f...Virginia Woolf Madame de la FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The NationPrint: Serial / periodical


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