Evidence: | 'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excellent Cruickshank-ish book called Murder for Profit.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 25 Dec 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Knole county: Kent location in dwelling: Bedroom |
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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 |
Author: | Benjamin Robert Haydon |
Title: | Autobiography |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Published 1847 (editor's footnote) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18053 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 172 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Christmas-day [25 December 1926] written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Vita says earlier in the letter that she is spending Christmas in bed with influenza. 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. 172, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18053, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
'Murder for Profit' is described in a footnote as 'A famous detective story by W. Bolitho (1926). |
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