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Record 18051

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow under my quilt, and the night noises outside, which are so familiar in one's own room; and the house was all quiet.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 30 Nov 1926
Country: England
Time: night
Place: city: Weald, Sevenoaks
county: Kent
specific address: Long Barn
location in dwelling: Bedroom
   
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:Vita Sackville-West
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 9 Mar 1892
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: Novelist
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: Mrs Dalloway
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Published by the Hogarth Press 14 May 1925
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18051  
Source - Print  
  Author: Vita Sackville-West
  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: 165
  Additional comments: Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday [1 December] 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.

Citation: Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 165, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18051, accessed: 16 April 2024

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