Record Number: 17917
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1940 and 13 Aug 1940
Country:England
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Place:n/a
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:unknown
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:letter to Virginia Woolf
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Biography
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
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Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:17917
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:431
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 431, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17917, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that Nicolson 'was then serving as a lance-bombadier in an anti-aircraft battery at Chatham, Kent' (p.431 n.1).