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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading "Wells on Woman" -- how she must be ancillary & dec...Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsThe Work, Wealth, and Happiness of MankindPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.Virginia Woolf Augustine BirrellThings Past RedressPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf G. K. ChestertonThomas AquinasPrint: 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 Ford Madox FordThus to RevisitPrint: 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
1900-1945'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one...Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong sid...Virginia Woolf Stella BensonTobit TransplantedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'Virginia Woolf Sophocles TrachiniaePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [Bell, nephew] came to tea; read Young;s French travel...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters -- to...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is prete...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in prog...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain rather active in fact: but didn't write -- did not...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: 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


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