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Record 18195

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 17 Dec 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:Roger Fry
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1866
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist/Art critic
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Leonard and Virginia Woolf
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Julien Benda
Title: unknown
Genre: Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book, Pamphlet
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18195  
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: 150
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18195, accessed: 28 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes that Benda's published works at this period included Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la mobilite (1912) and Belphegor (1918); see p.150 n.14.

 

 

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