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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to m...Virginia Woolf Florence HardyLife of Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'Virginia Woolf J.W. MackailLife of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of [?Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: 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
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Ex-Detective Sergeant B. LeesonLost London. The Memoirs of an East End DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best place in the world for reading Shakespeare. Asheham...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1900-1945Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he...Virginia Woolf William Michael RossettiMemoir of Christina RossettiPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and mellow and satisf...Virginia Woolf George SandMemoires (vol 5)Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Charles GrevilleMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Colette Mes ApprentisagesPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf Mrs EasdaleMiddle Age: 1885-1932Print: 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 George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Emily Hilda YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf anon mock epitaph for Virginia WoolfPrint: Serial / periodical


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