D= Diary (# = volume) L= Letters (# = volume, then letter #)

This spreadsheet was created by Matthew Cheney as part of a Summer Teaching Assistant Fellowship Award from the University of New Hampshire Graduate School, summer 2015.

"I'm reading George Sand quietly.... Have Auden McNeice in Iceland from The Times; also some French George Sand memoirs" see note 5 -- whether she did read this, uncertain

Austen, Jane; ed. R.W. Chapman

"I'm reading Jane Austen [Letters] in this heavenly solitude over the long fire" (see L5 p.125 n.2 for bibliographic info)

"MB has sent me his book, and I've snatched up his praise of your singing..."

"We sat & bawled, about God & Dulwich" [E. Smyth declared Baring "one of the finest novelists England has ever produced"]

"I'm reading, or going to read, Alfieri, Chateaubriand, Paxton, Leo Myers; Barker & Moore poetry..."

references anecdote in one of the Bennett letters. See p.16 n.2

"Reading. Miss Mole: fair, but soft; & Stella Benson but I'm hard on novels, & an old dr. called Salter, & Dryden, & Alfieri."

"then a book a day from the Times, Berners, Selincourt & a stout life by Neale of Q Elizabeth which pretending to impartiality emphasises the double chin..."

"And I'll forgive you for having me made or Victoria the Widow, because of one or 2 stories, though there again—dear me, how can you roll out your big guns over that entirely false and feeble and twittering performance?"

"then I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost"

"It is very good of you to send me your novel, which I am keeping, as a treat, for next week..." [did she go on to read it then?]

"I didn't read Last September...but I shall when I get back." (Did she?)

"...I'm so muddled by reading a mass of manuscripts. But I shall, all the same, read yours." L5.3066 (4 Oct 1935): "I skimmed Elizabeth's book in a rush: I must read it again. I thought it a little tight and hard, but very good—much the best of hers I've read." n.1 references Glendinning bio p.94 for VW reaction.

Brenan, Gerald (wr. under pseudonym George Beaton)

"I looked into your book and shut it; I can't get hold of Lawrence; I like and I dislike; and always feel its a puzzle that I must sit down to one of these days, honestly; to read him through."

"I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth"; see also L5.2788: "and Vera Brittain has written a book which kept me out of bed till I'd read it. Why?"

Brooke (Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke)

"haven't settled, as I should, to read all Donne, all Sidney, all ... Lord Brooke"

list of "Books read or in reading" on page facing diary entries for 4 & 5 Oct

Byron? (or Bennet, Don Juan de Marana: A Play in Four Acts)

"I am reading Don Juan" Bennet Don Juan in VW/LW library w/ LW bookplate

Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D.H. Lawrence, The

"I'm reading the new edition of Carswells D.H.L. book" (2nd ed.)

"Reading Beckford by Chapman—but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man?"

Chateaubriand, Francois Rene de

Chateaubriand, Francois Rene de

"reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge"

"Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie"

"Isn't it shameful to writer here first thing, not to tackle Congreve? But my brain...gave out after dinner, so that I cdn't read Love for Love" See 23 June entry: "It's ill writing after reading Love for Love--a masterpiece."

"But when it comes gushing out of Creevey's page..." see also 21 May

Deffand, Marquise du (Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand)

"reading D. Copperfield" see also L6.3104 (8 February 1936): "I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction."

"Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dimnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther..."

"Middlemarch finished: now Dizzy: then Trollope -- but which?"

list of "Books read or in reading" on page facing diary entries for 4 & 5 Oct

"I break off from my plain duty which is to read the Anatomy of the World"; see also L5, 2522 (8 Feb)

"haven't settled, as I should, to read all Donne, all Sidney, all ... Lord Brooke"

"Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dimnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther..."

"I've scarcely read either — only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry" D4 8 May, see note p.96

"I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs"

"The rock disappointed me. I couldn't go and see it, having caught the influenza in Ireland; and in reading, without seeing, perhaps one got the horror of that cheap farce and Cockney dialogue and dogmatism too full in the face."

"I have only had time, though, in this world of interruption to read it once..." See also L5.3081 (16 Nov 1935): "The truth is it acts far less well than reads: cant manage the human body: only a soliloquy." Similarly, L5.3085.

Oxford Apostles: A Character Study of the Oxford Movement

"I've been reading Faber on Newman"; L5.2787: "I've been reading a stuck up humbug called Faber on Newman with fury." (3 Sept 1933)

Works and Days: Extracts from the Journal of Michael Field

Field, Michael pseud. [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) & Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913)] edited by T & D.C. Sturge Moore

"And I've just bought E. FitzGerald on Sevigne, & may broach her."

"Really reading Flaubert's letters I hear my own voice cry out Oh Art! Patience. Find him consoling, admonishing."

"I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs"

"reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady ... then Gide's journal"

Godley, Arthur (Lord Kilbracken)

"Reading this August" list; see also L5.2619 (9? Aug 1932): "then I read Lord Kilbracken—what a good book"

"...dip into The Sciences of Life (Wells) and Goethe and various poems"

"I began the four great vols of Goldsmith this morning"

"Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs" [Clarkson provided disguises for Dreadnought hoax"

"Can't review Miss Weeton either. ... But anyhow the book is bad mostly..." (also quoted from the book in 3G)

"I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now." See also 22 July 1932 and note 11 p.119

"or go on reading Hazlitt" Was reading Hazilitt throughout 1930, probably starting in January, for her Sept 1930 review of the complete works

Temple, or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, The

Higham, T.F. & C.M. Bowra, eds.

"And I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly."

"I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye"

"I am reading Point Counterpoint. Not a good novel. all raw, uncooked, protesting."

"reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady ... then Gide's journal"

"His book has now arrived. I can't say I find it lively reading, but then its [sic] difficult to see one self as a mummy in a museum: even a highly respectable museum." See also L5.2560: "I've not got a huge book on V.W.: but cant read it, because I hate my own face in the looking glass."

"Read all early R[oger Fry] letters. noted them. also library books: also Keats: also MSS"

Lawrence, D.H.; ed. Aldous Huxley

"I am also reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration"; see L5.2656 (3 Nov 1932): "I've finished his letters; no, I'm not enthusiastic"

Walter Leaf, 1852-1927. Some Chapters of Autobiography. With a Memoir by Charlotte M. Leaf

Leaf, Walter & Charlotte M. Leaf

"reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady ... then Gide's journal"

Leonora, Sylvia (nee Brett); writing as Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak

list of "Books read or in reading" on page facing diary entries for 4 & 5 Oct

"Wyndham Lewis Auby: hot mean reading. Exacerbates. Yet diminishes vitality. Thank God, it will be out of the house today."

"I shall read Sevigné & Chaucer & 50 YEars of a Drs life if it comes from the Library."

"Desmond's criticism rather sends my value up in my eyes..."

Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, The

"As usual, I have drawn too many words from my well, & want to fill it from some good book. Mandeville The Bees, I think." 26 April: "this really a fruitful book; the book I want". quoted from in 3Gs

"It seemed to explain to us what we're doing. She gave me Thomas Mann. who does the same."

Mansfield, Katherine ed. John Middleton Murry

"I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters; Stendhal on Rome, & the Italian."

"I'm reading, or going to read, Alfieri, Chateaubriand, Paxton, Leo Myers; Barker & Moore poetry..."

"...I took a flight into Marryat this..." and n.3 p.334. 22 Aug: "Finished Marryat." See also L5.3053 (27 July 1935): "and read Captain Marryat."

"I must now read Wainwrights, a possible East End novel" (read ms. apparently, as novel not published till 1935 by Grayson & Grayson

"I began Lord Ormont & his Aminta, & found it so rich, so knotted, so alive & muscular after the pale little fiction I'm used to, that, alas, it made me wish to write fiction again. Meredith underrated."