√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems m... | Winifred Holtby | | Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinb... | Winifred Holtby | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Super Flumina Babylonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes o... | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Hobbes | The Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and st... | Winifred Holtby | Walter Raleigh | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc... | Winifred Holtby | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she conc... | Winifred Holtby | Stella Benson | Living Alone | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early ninet... | Winifred Holtby | Joseph Conrad | Suspense | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should h... | Winifred Holtby | George Moore | Heloise and Abelard | 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 pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently ... | Winifred Holtby | St. John Ervine | God's Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".' | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Edward Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a... | Winifred Holtby | Liddell Hart | T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to... | Winifred Holtby | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Print: Unknown |