Record Number: 19691
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer kind of twilight humour don't you think [...] What enraged me in the book was the tragedy. If it is supposed to [italics]be[end italics] a tragedy it's absolutely hopeless; if it's supposed to be amusing, it simply fails.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Oct 1905 and 29 Oct 1905
Country:Ceylon
Timen/a
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:Male
Date of Birth:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Colonial civil servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ceylon
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Where Angels Fear to Tread
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1905
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:19691
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:105
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19691, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
'Taupe' (French: 'mole') Woolf and Strachey's nickname for Forster since student days at Cambridge.