| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often... | Virginia Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | | 'new novels' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913:
'[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ... | Virginia Woolf | George Meredith | letters | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Insulted and Injured | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Merrick | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | | classical Greek literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919:
'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu... | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Women in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Rimbaud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926:
'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Raleigh | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927:
'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Knole and the Sackvilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929:
'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r... | Virginia Woolf | Ronald Firbank | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929:
'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.
... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931:
'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them... | Virginia Woolf | Princess Daisy of Pless | From My Private Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932:
'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | Tobit Transplanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933:
'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | short story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933:
'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem... | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell | letter | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934:
'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel... | Virginia Woolf | | report of death of Sir George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [... | Virginia Woolf | Edith Wharton | A Backward Glance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936:
'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's
affair with the a... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Wright | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes
Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929... | Virginia Woolf | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Sido | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Memoires (vol 5) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938:
'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Frederick Cavendish | The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939:
'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940:
'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma... | Virginia Woolf | Shena, Lady Simon | paper on women and war | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | study on Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940:
'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | 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... | Virginia Woolf | Benedict Nicolson | letter to Virginia Woolf | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Seducers in Ecuador | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'. | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fanny Kemble | 'Life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the t... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Murray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a si... | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen | critical work on Pope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight
on until bedtime, ... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, &
the only tolerable history... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open
Dante or think of him wit... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine
into R.T. more closely [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon
Square [...] I sat alone for... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'book on Children & Sex' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a... | Virginia Woolf | George Crabbe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'. | Virginia Woolf | Ezra Pound | Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2
days ago at Lane End [...]... | Virginia Woolf | | notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's
sister-in-law] was announced.' | Virginia Woolf | George Otto Trevelyan | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas de Quincey | Impassioned Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetic... | Virginia Woolf | William Michael Rossetti | Memoir of Christina Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night,
with [...] the English r... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | 'Bliss' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can
imagine the effect ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'. |
| 1900-1945 | 'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.' | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Trachiniae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | 'reminiscences' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Burke | 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de La Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Gwendolyn Cecil | The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Cecil Torr | Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of [?Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Crotchet Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de la Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [ms novel] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.' | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Gosse | Books on the Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ... | Virginia Woolf | Leigh Hunt | The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Seldes | Review of James Joyce, Ulysses | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or The Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | On the Lake | 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 | 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 | Beatrice Webb | My Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk... | Virginia Woolf | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ... | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Collected Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Clark | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Country Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Robert Bridges | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Scott | The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'sporting memoirs' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t... | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo... | Virginia Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Jenkins | Virginia Water | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ... | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Biirrell | ?Collected Essays, 1880-1920 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | George Puttenham | The Arte of English Poesie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | William Webbe | A Discourse of English Poetrie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Commonplace Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Letter Book, 1573-1580 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.' | Virginia Woolf | | 'Lord Chaplin's life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Dodo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st... | Virginia Woolf | Molly Hamilton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati... | Virginia Woolf | Rosamund Lehmann | A Note in Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Daniel Defoe | A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Archibald Hamilton Rowan | The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | James Jeans | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | The Rev. John Skinner | The Journal of a Somerset Rector | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Queen Victoria | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Hugh Walpole | Judith Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Science of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock... | Virginia Woolf | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Alexis de Tocqueville | Souvenirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Kilbracken | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | Pen Portraits and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Douglas Ainslie | Adventures Social and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | 'novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Letters of D. H. Lawrence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Wright | The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.' | Virginia Woolf | R. Barry O'Brien | The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | 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[... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Creevey | The Creevey Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | Leopardi | [poem] | 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 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett... | Virginia Woolf | Florence Hardy | Life of Thomas Hardy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Cust Faber | A Character Study of the Oxford Movement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'. | Virginia Woolf | Turgenev | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C... | Virginia Woolf | Arsene Houssaye | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout... | Virginia Woolf | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Margot Oxford | More Memories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as... | Virginia Woolf | Marguerite Steen | Hugh Walpole: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of... | Virginia Woolf | | announcement of death of Stella Benson | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther... | Virginia Woolf | Andrew Marvell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Berners | First Childhood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest de Selincourt | Dorothy Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | J. E. Neale | Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Rock. A Pageant Play | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson | Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Pages de Journal, 1929-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Charles de Vigny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | John Cowper Powys | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak | Good Morning and Good Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Bonamy Dobree | Modern Prose Style | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Alice James | Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | Edward Sackville-West | The Sun in Capricorn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of James Boswell | Print: Book |
| 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 | Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.
| Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | Acts of the Apostles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'Italian novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | John Summerson | John Nash, Architect to King George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Annie S. Swan | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra... | Virginia Woolf | Stephen Spender | The Destructive Element | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Overing Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Aaron's Rod | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Stendhal | 'on Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin... | Virginia Woolf | Ruth Gruber | Virginia Woolf: A Study | |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Emily Hilda Young | Miss Mole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Abbe Dunnet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | John Bailey | John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | William Congreve | Love for Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Charles Mallett | Anthony Hope and His Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | John Ford | The Lover's Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Easdale | Middle Age: 1885-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ... | Virginia Woolf | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | 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 |
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1900-1945 | Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Greville | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'. | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Hardy | The Trumpet-Major | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | George Borrow | Wild Wales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Harry J. Greenwall | The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'. | Virginia Woolf | Peter Quennell | Byron. The Years of Fame | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c... | Virginia Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Colette | Mes Apprentisages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Moliere | Le Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | What Then Must We Do? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Spring | review of Virginia Woolf, The Years | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Elle et Lui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ... | Virginia Woolf | Guy Chapman | Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Birrell | Things Past Redress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Greek verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl... | Virginia Woolf | Queenie Leavis | Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Siegfried Sassoon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | valedictory editorial article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | Eugene Delacroix | Journal de Eugene Delacroix | 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 | Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mont Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Edward Marsh | A Number of People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Rochefoucauld | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Adolf Hitler | Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Blaise Pascal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Pater | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ... | Virginia Woolf | Theophrastus | 'Characters' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | Group Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Ricketts | Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Herbert | Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | anon | mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Havelock Ellis | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Woolf | A. B. Goldenveizer | Talks with Tolstoi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot... | Virginia Woolf | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | G. K. Chesterton | Thomas Aquinas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Leslie Stephen | essay on Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ... | Virginia Woolf | | Scrutiny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London... | Virginia Woolf | F. L. Lucas | Studies French and English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France vol.15 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | G. M. Trevelyan | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 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 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart.
'The foot less prompt to ... | Virginia Woolf | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L... | Virginia Woolf | anon | account of the Great Fire of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop... | Virginia Woolf | Desmond MacCarthy | Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | La Porte Etroite | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in... | Virginia Woolf | R. H. Tawney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Francis Steegmuller | Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Jacques Emile Blanche | More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Last Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | | 'life of Erasmus' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Gerald Heard | Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.' | Virginia Woolf | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,... | Virginia Woolf | Julia Mary Cartwright Ady | The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.' | Virginia Woolf | Alice Stopford Green | Town Life in the Fifteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.' | Virginia Woolf | J.W. Mackail | Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.' | Virginia Woolf | Austen Henry Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "History of Music."' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [History of Music] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.' | Virginia Woolf | Rhoda Broughton | Not Wisely but Too Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.' | Virginia Woolf | | The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912:
'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate... | Virginia Woolf | | The Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Virginia Woolf | | The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | Lewis Melville | The Thackeray Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | F. G. Kitton | The Dickens Country | Print: Book |