| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.' | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate ... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | Sodom et Gonorrhe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;)... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publ... | Vita Sackville-West | Louis de Robert | Comment debuta Marcel Proust | 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 | 'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when y... | Vita Sackville-West | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | 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 | ' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's concept... | Vita Sackville-West | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except ... | Vita Sackville-West | Andre Gide | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoo... | Vita Sackville-West | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper:
"The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...."
It bears an unpleasant resemblan... | Vita Sackville-West | William Cowper | The Task, Part III (The Garden) | 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 am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.' | Vita Sackville-West | Helen Waddell | The Wandering Scholars | 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 am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the... | Vita Sackville-West | William Butler Yeats | Leda and the Swan | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | 'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.' | Vita Sackville-West | J.C. Squire | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanat... | Vita Sackville-West | Herbert Read | unknown | 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 | 'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.' | Vita Sackville-West | Arnold Zweig | The Case of Sergeant Grisha | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.' | Vita Sackville-West | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leon... | Vita Sackville-West | Clifford Kitchin | Death of my Aunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tell Leonard to read Harold's new book. It is more in his line than yours, being political, but I think you would be... | Vita Sackville-West | Harold Nicolson | Peacemaking | 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 | 'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [Elizabethan lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more. I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic ma... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading t... | Vita Sackville-West | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.' | Vita Sackville-West | William Wordsworth | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whet... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [nineteenth-century works] | Print: 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 | 'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Gr... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [selections from a Greek Anthology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some... | Vita Sackville-West | Edmund Wilson | Through the Embassy Window; Harold Nicolson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and ... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |