Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931:
'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy
of Pless, speculating upon her real character and life and longing for a full account of them
from you -- who appear in a footnote as a distinguished author. What a chance the British
aristocracy had and lost -- I mean if they'd only grafted brains on to those splendid bodies and
wholesome minds -- for I can't help liking her, in her wild idiocy, and her frankness "7 days
late -- can it be a child --" seems to me the highest human quality, if it werent [sic] combined
with a housemaids [sic] sensibility and the sentimentality of a Surbiton cook.'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1931 and 24 May 1931 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Sussex | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Princess Daisy of Pless |
Title: | From My Private Diary |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1931 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17839 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Joanne Trautmann Banks | |
Title: | Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 288-289 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 288-289, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17839, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Source ed. notes that Princess Daisy of Pless (nee Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West) was distantly related to Vita Sackville-West through the De la Warr family; see p.288 n.3. |
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