| Evidence: | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the time pass much better than the Pall Mall Gazette.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 20 Jan 1915 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: Hammersmith railway station |
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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: | Agnostic |
| 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: | Alexander Pope |
| Title: | Essay on Criticism |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published anonymously in 1711 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17982 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1977 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 24 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 24, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17982, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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