√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the... | Katherine Mansfield | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write ... | Barbara Pym | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925:
'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque... | Gwen Raverat | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Unknown, In proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas
1932. The first words of the ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934:
'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the... | Stephen Spender | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Benedict Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll h... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in th... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the commo... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Sun and the Fish | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.' | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photogr... | Harold Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story o... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 22 December the Woolfs went to Charleston for Christmas [...] Clive and Vanessa Bell [sister to Virginia Woolf] an... | Vanessa Bell and family | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 1923 diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the meantime, let me say that I read you with delight, even though I wanted to exclaim, "Oh, BUT,Virginia..." on 5... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l... | Vanessa Bell | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Extract of letter to Virginia Woolf from E. M. Forster, copied by Woolf in diary entry of 16 November 1931:
'"I ex... | E. M. Forster | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: 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,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: 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,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in... | Alice Ritchie | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Re... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian ... | Adrian Stephen | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.' | John Maynard Keynes | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by ... | Theodora Bosanquet | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have pant... | Philippa Strachey | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary (17 May 1932) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 'The Leaning Tower' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & fin... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attemp... | Antonia White | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Virginia Woolf | Waves, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern ... | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Print: 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 - "... | Vera Brittain | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book, Unknown |