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Record Number: 18951


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs." Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her extracts.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 May 1938 and 24 May 1938

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:

Theodora Bosanquet

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

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

Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

Three Guineas

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Education, pacifism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Review copy, 1937

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18951

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

5

Page:

141

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18951, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Text read not published until 3 June 1937. Bosanquet (d.1961) the 'close friend and companion' of Lady Rhondda, founder and editor of Time and Tide, in which Bosanquet's review of Three Guineas appeared on 4 June 1938; see p.141 n.8 in source.

   
   
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