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Record Number: 18075


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled and bewitched. How did you do it? how did you walk along that razor-edge without falling? why did you say anything so silly as that I 'shouldn't like it'?'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 5 May 1927 and 12 May 1927

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Weald, Sevenoaks
county: Kent
specific address: Long Barn

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


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:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

To the Lighthouse

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Published 5 May 1927 by the Hogarth Press

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18075

Source:

Print

Author:

Vita Sackville-West

Editor:

Louise DeSalvo

Title:

The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

217

Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from a letter dated Thursday evening 12 May 1927 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.

Citation:

Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 217, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18075, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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