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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene genuine literature ever published, not excepting Juvena...Arnold Bennett James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922: 'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too. I have him on the table. His pages are cut. Leona...Leonard Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: 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
1900-19451 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to reading Joyce's ms. aloud, & in particular to imitating his modern imitation of ...Desmond MacCarthy James JoyceUlyssesManuscript: Codex
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
1900-1945Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & ...Virginia Woolf Gilbert SeldesReview of James Joyce, UlyssesPrint: Serial / periodical
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
1900-1945Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our...Katherine Mansfield James JoyceUlyssesManuscript: Typescript
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart an...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In Nov. 1888 I visited Aldworth shortly after death had suddenly carried off my dearly-loved adventurous b...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonUlyssesUnknown
1900-1945 I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguish...Arnold Bennett James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesAlfred Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1900-1945'Father saw me off at Naples — I felt most dreadfully sad at saying goodbye to my dear family, but I consoled myself by reading "Ulysses" which is a most beautiful ...Gertrude Bell Alfred, Lord TennysonUlyssesPrint: Book


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