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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching...Virginia Woolf A. B. GoldenveizerTalks with TolstoiPrint: 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
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Na...Print: 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
1900-1945'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
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf Archibald Hamilton RowanThe Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton RowanPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'Virginia Woolf EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'Virginia Woolf Thomas CreeveyThe Creevey PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came...Virginia Woolf Stephen SpenderThe Destructive ElementPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight, no originality. All as drab and dowdy as Mabel's ...Virginia Woolf Lady Frederick CavendishThe Diary of Lady Frederick CavendishPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf F. G. KittonThe Dickens CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938: 'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very good book -- Mandeville's Fable of the bees [1714].'Virginia Woolf Bernard MandevilleThe Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick ...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'Virginia Woolf Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a car, & on the back seat was a Cheetah with a chain rou...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It starts theories. But no... You see the experiment with st...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
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
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book


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