| Evidence: | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being full of a particular kind of interest which I daresay has something to do with its being the sort of thing I should like to write myself.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 15 Sep 1924 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Rodmell, Lewes county: Sussex specific address: Monk's House |
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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: | Novelist |
| Religion: | Agnostic |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Letter written at Monk's House, Rodmell, Lewes |
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Title: | Seducers in Ecuador |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | 1924 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17937 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Louise de Salvo | |
| Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 59 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from letter written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 59, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17937, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The editor has added a note to clarify that the story referred to is Seducers in Ecuador. Virginia Woolf was reading it prior to its publication by the Hogarth Press, the publishing company run by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. |
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