| Evidence: | 15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary tomorrow [...] "Latest Racine" he had read on the posters at Waterloo; thought it referred to Masefield; then re-read Racing.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1922 and 15 Feb 1922 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: Waterloo Station |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Lytton Strachey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| 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: | anon |
| Title: | advertisement/announcement on racing |
| Genre: | Sport / Leisure, Ephemera, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Poster |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 18196 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 163 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 163, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18196, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Source ed. notes: 'John Masefield's play, adapted and partially translated from Racine's biblical tragedy Esther, had been reviewed at length in the TLS of 9 February 1922. Strachey's long essay on Racine was about to reappear in his collection Books and Characters (1922)' (p.163 n.10). |
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