| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Florence MacCunn | Sir Walter Scott's Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | J. Soames | [article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinkin... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Ja... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So man... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas' | Antonia White | [unknown] | [MSS by or about Carlyle] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right... | Antonia White | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] h... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense')
"There may well be intense consciousness in the total... | Antonia White | George Santayana | Reason in Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817)
"negative capabil... | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'. | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Field | [book on child psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Humphrey Jennings | Little town in France | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not w... | Antonia White | Marcel Proust | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: th... | Antonia White | Peter Warlock | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading... | Antonia White | Francis Thompson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] boulev... | Antonia White | John Woolman | Journal of John Woolman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference betwee... | Antonia White | Charlotte d'Erlanger | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke ret... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['trash'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['lives of painters'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['journals of poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook
Free spirit liable to possession or obsession...
Debauchery is t... | Antonia White | Eric Siepmann | [notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | I have been Drowned | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Emily | [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation'] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same f... | Antonia White | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not ... | Antonia White | Frances Grigson | [letters to Tom Hopkinson] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | Hoare | [article on Rimbaud] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | [n/a] | Vogue | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her.... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | Tigron, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Antonia White | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly... | Antonia White | Andre Breton | Nadja | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'. | Antonia White | Basil Nicholson | Business is Business | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear,... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding ... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | Antonia White | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and comp... | Antonia White | Laura Riding | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ... | Antonia White | Katherine Mansfield | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading he... | Antonia White | Christine Botting | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said i... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, green notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [a life of George Eliot] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his inventi... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion ge... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary notebooks] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the... | Antonia White | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | Man Below, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Arthur Conan Doyle | [Sherlock Holmes Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [e... | Antonia White | [n/a] | New Statesman, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [an American magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, f... | Antonia White | George Sand | [letters to and from Flaubert] | 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 | 'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journ... | Antonia White | Julien Green | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | George Tyrrell | [Jesuit writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [Catholic texts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has falle... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping ... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'. | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand t... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [Gospels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [writings about religion, Church History, etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Walter Hylton | Scala Perfectionis, or Ladder of Perfection | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Julian of Norwich | Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love | Print: Book |