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Record Number: 18716


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [regarding negotiations toward armistice], which we bought & devoured in the [train.]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 Oct 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: on board train from Kingston

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:

Reading Group:

Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writers

Religion:

Jewish and agnostic

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

newspaper report of US presidential message

Genre:

Politics, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

24 October 1918

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18716

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1977

Vol:

1

Page:

207

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18716, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

See p.208 n.29 in source for background on text read.

   
   
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