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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and rer...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1900-1945"Read June 19 1947".Charles Philips Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1900-1945'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h...Anne Tibble Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandPrint: Unknown
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 Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What conne...Thomas Stearns Eliot Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandUnknown
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe WatcherPrint: Book
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, — a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have...Charles Lamb Robert SoutheyThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical, Extract from poetry book in periodical
1700-1799'What is become of Moschus? You sported some of his sublimities, I see, in your Watchman. Very decent things.'Charles Lamb Robert LovellThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay The Wave and the BattlefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the book are: "There is a fearful passage in Virginia Wo...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the last 3 days completely submerged in The Waves -- & am...Vanessa Bell Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945Extract of letter to Virginia Woolf from E. M. Forster, copied by Woolf in diary entry of 16 November 1931: '"I expect I shall write to you again when I have re read ...E. M. Forster Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading, on 13 November 1931.'Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading, on 13 November 1931.'Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in your next book". She had just re-read The Waves: ma...Alice Ritchie Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and un...Vera Brittain Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Samuel ButlerThe Way of all FleshPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished that wonderful book—"The Way of All Flesh". It is a wonderful book.'William Henry Hudson Samuel ButlerThe Way of All FleshPrint: Book


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