Record Number: 18023

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 8 Apr 1926

Country:

Persia

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Teheran

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vita Sackville-West

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

9 Mar 1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Novelist

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Persia

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Louis de Robert

Title:

Comment debuta Marcel Proust

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Written in French.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18023

Source:

Print

Author:

Vita Sackville-West

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:

132

Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from a letter dated 8 April 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. The editors have added the author and publication date of the text mentioned in a footnote (Louis de Robert, 1925). Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.

Citation:

Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18023, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None