Evidence: | Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Lytton Strachey |
Age | Unknown |
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: | Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) |
Title: | Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson |
Genre: | Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18204 | |
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: | 201 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18204, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Source ed. suggests Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life (1786) and/or Autobiography Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale), ed. A. Hayward (1861), as text/s read (see p.201 n.9). |
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