the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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George Otto Trevelyan : The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Sir George Otto Trevelyan : The Competition Wallah

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah. It is extraordinary; it might be the Northern Province in 1907 instead of Bengal in the sixties.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

George Otto Trevelyan : The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley

'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

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