Record Number: 19034
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:5 Jul 1940
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:agnostic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:essay on Coleridge
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn Sir Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library (1892)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19034
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:5
Page:300
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19034, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Stephen also authored DNB entry on Coleridge.