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Record 17992

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life. She read me a passage [of her diary] in my praise though, so the realities do come in sometimes.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 19 Nov 1917 and 22 Nov 1917
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:Ottoline Morrell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1873
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: socialite
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Virginia Woolf
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ottoline Morrell
Title: journal
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Manuscript: Codex
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17992  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1977
  Vol: 1
  Page: 79
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 79, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17992, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. quotes Morrell's recollection, in Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1915-1918 (1974) p.244, that 'When we were talking about keeping a journal, I said mine was filled with thoughts and struggles of my inner life. She [Woolf] opened her eyes wide in astonishment' (see p.79 n.28 in source).

 

 

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