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Record 18194

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Sep 1921 and 15 Sep 1921
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:James Strachey
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Sep 1887
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Training as psychoanalyst
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jane Harrison
Title: Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Genre: Other religious, Classics, Essays / Criticism, Social Science, psychoanalysis; psychology
Form of Text: Print: Pamphlet
Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 1921
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18194  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1978
  Vol: 2
  Page: 136
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 136, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18194, accessed: 24 April 2024

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