√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t... | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that li... | Katherine Mansfield | Louis Vintras | The Silver Net | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners... | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do ple... | Katherine Mansfield | E.F. Benson | Sheaves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the... | Katherine Mansfield | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbe... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.' | Katherine Mansfield | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter... | Katherine Mansfield | Henry James | Confidence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "... | Katherine Mansfield | Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'. | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum... | Katherine Mansfield | William Temple | Miscellanea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" ... | Katherine Mansfield | Dorothy Wordsworth | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts ... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speec... | Katherine Mansfield | Lloyd George | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But i... | Katherine Mansfield | E.M. Forster | Howard's End | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Geneva | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Hamilton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Possessed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed.... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be.... | Katherine Mansfield | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | All's Well that Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.' | Katherine Mansfield | W.J.D. | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | | [newspapers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as h... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | various | The Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | | The story of Jonah and the Whale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 January 1941:
'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in... | Katherine Mansfield | James Joyce | Ulysses | Manuscript: Typescript |