Record Number: 17937
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being full of a particular kind of interest which I daresay has something to do with its being the sort of thing I should like to write myself.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:15 Sep 1924
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Rodmell, Lewes
county: Sussex
specific address: Monk's House
(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:Novelist
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
Letter written at Monk's House, Rodmell, Lewes
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Seducers in Ecuador
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Details1924
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17937
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Louise de Salvo
Title:The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:59
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from letter written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 59, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17937, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
The editor has added a note to clarify that the story referred to is Seducers in Ecuador. Virginia Woolf was reading it prior to its publication by the Hogarth Press, the publishing company run by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.