Record Number: 17798
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse enormous vanity, which at last made him unapproachable like Meredith whose letters I am reading -- who seems to me as hard as an old crab at the bottom of the sea'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Apr 1913 and 11 Apr 1913
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letters
Genre:Letters
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17798
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Joanne Trautmann Banks
Title:Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1989
Vol:n/a
Page:79-80
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 79-80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17798, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that Meredith had been a friend of Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen; not clear whether letters read in print or MS (though also not clear whether or not they formed part of any correspondence with Stephen).
