Record Number: 17863
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many years and contributed to his estrangement from his wife.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Feb 1936 and 8 Feb 1936
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: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:Life of Charles Dickens
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1935
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Source Information:
Record ID:17863
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Joanne Trautmann Banks
Title:Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1989
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Page:371 n.1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 371 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17863, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Ed.'s note accompanies letter of 8 February 1936 in which Virginia Woolf writes to Hugh Walpole: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it is [...] So enthusiastic am I that I've got a new life of him [Dickens]: which makes me dislike him as a human being. Did you know -- you who know everything? -- the story of the actress?' (pp.370-371).
