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Record Number: 18194


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1921 and 15 Sep 1921

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:

James Strachey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Sep 1887

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Training as psychoanalyst

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Jane Harrison

Title:

Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Genre:

Other religious, Classics, Essays / Criticism, Social Science, psychoanalysis; psychology

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

Cambridge University Press, 1921

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18194

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

2

Page:

136

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 136, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18194, accessed: 29 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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