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Record Number: 18076


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 5 May 1927 and 1 Jun 1927

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Hugh Walpole

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Mar 1884

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

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

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18076

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:

225

Additional Comments:

Comments made by Hugh Walpole to Vita Sackville-West and quoted by her in a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 1 June 1927. Vita introduces the quotation as 'compliments' from 'my poor despised friend Hugh'. He is identified as Hugh Walpole in an editorial footnote. 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. 225, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18076, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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