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Record 16878

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write an essay about life in the WRNS'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 3 Oct 1943
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:Barbara Pym
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 2 Jun 1913
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: A Room of One's Own
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16878  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jenny Hartley
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1999
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 122
  Additional comments: From Barbara Pym, "A Very Private Eye. Diaries Letters and Notebooks", eds Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (1984)

Citation: Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War (London, 1999), p. 122, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16878, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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