| Evidence: | 1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to
reading Joyce's ms. aloud, & in particular to imitating his modern imitation of a cat's miau.
L[eonard]. went to bed, & though capable of spending a night in this manner, I had
compunction, & decoyed Desmond upstairs, collecting books as we went.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 28 Apr 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | night | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Desmond MacCarthy |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1877 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer/Naval intelligence officer |
| 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 |
| Author: | James Joyce |
| Title: | Ulysses |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Codex |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 18035 | |
| 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: | 145 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18035, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Virginia and Leonard Woolf were considering Joyce's novel for publication from their press; see p.136 n.15 in source. |
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