Record Number: 17839
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy of Pless, speculating upon her real character and life and longing for a full account of them from you -- who appear in a footnote as a distinguished author. What a chance the British aristocracy had and lost -- I mean if they'd only grafted brains on to those splendid bodies and wholesome minds -- for I can't help liking her, in her wild idiocy, and her frankness "7 days late -- can it be a child --" seems to me the highest human quality, if it werent [sic] combined with a housemaids [sic] sensibility and the sentimentality of a Surbiton cook.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 May 1931 and 24 May 1931
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Sussex
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:n/a
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:From My Private Diary
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1931
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17839
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:288-289
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 288-289, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17839, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that Princess Daisy of Pless (nee Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West) was distantly related to Vita Sackville-West through the De la Warr family; see p.288 n.3.