√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Leonard Woolf | Arnold Bennett | An Old Wives Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922:
'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too.... | Leonard Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936:
'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is try... | Leonard Woolf | Bertrand Russell | Which Way to Peace? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15
[...] He read Janet "The... | Leonard Woolf | Leonard Woolf | 'The Three Jews' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Leonard Woolf | Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude Tuckwell | Life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the g... | Leonard Woolf | unknown | Greek grammar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is bray... | Leonard Woolf | Ethel Smyth | A Three-Legged Tour in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Leonard Woolf | J. G. Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel t... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.' | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with ... | Leonard Woolf | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901:
'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over... | Leonard Woolf | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901:
'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell ... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Marriott | The Column | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901:
'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus... | Leonard Woolf | Honore De Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts o... | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Kyd | The Spanish Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper ... | Leonard Woolf | | The Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902:
'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the ne... | Leonard Woolf | Maxim Gorky | Foma Gordyeeff | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Turkish Tales' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | A Rebours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It incl... | Leonard Woolf | Arthur Schopenhauer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Barry Pain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Oscar Wilde | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | | A Manual of Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903:
'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team... | Leonard Woolf | George Stout | [on Psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904:
'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees &... | Leonard Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905:
'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Alfred de Vigny | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Russell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | La Dictionnaire Philosophique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905:
'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only ex... | Leonard Woolf | Denis Diderot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905:
'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905:
'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordi... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906:
'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua ... | Leonard Woolf | Roger Fry | The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906:
'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906:
'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [Joh... | Leonard Woolf | Jean de la Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907:
'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I... | Leonard Woolf | Sir George Otto Trevelyan | The Competition Wallah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907:
'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an as... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | The Longest Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907:
'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricu... | Leonard Woolf | Francis Cornford | Thucydides Mythistoricus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907:
'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908:
'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] &... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | A Room with a View | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909:
'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & pap... | Leonard Woolf | G. E. Moore | 'Professor James' "Pragmatism"' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | 'tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Earl of Cromer | Modern Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911:
'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S.... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912:
'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can ... | Leonard Woolf | Virginia Stephen | fiction MSS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912:
'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than... | Leonard Woolf | | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Leonard Woolf | | Poor Law Minority Report | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | Hurrell Froude | Remains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | John Henry Newman | Apologia pro vita sua | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916:
'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laug... | Leonard Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Life of Dr Arnold | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923:
'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy jour... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of Samuel Garrett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928:
'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell... | Leonard Woolf | Dorothy Osborne | The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930:
'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I canno... | Leonard Woolf | T. S. Eliot | Ash Wednesday | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | | Classical Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler | The King's English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | Marie Corelli | extracts from novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924:
'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hand... | Leonard Woolf | John Clare | Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933:
'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which... | Leonard Woolf | Frank Hardie | 'Youth, Socialism and Peace' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |