Evidence: | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gigantic grasshopper Aldous [Huxley] folded up in a chair close by.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 30 Jun 1926 and 1 Jul 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Boar's Hill, near Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Chilswell House location in dwelling: Library |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | agnostic |
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: | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Title: | [manuscripts] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 18230 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 93 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18230, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Bridges a neighbour of the Morrells; Huxley also a guest at Garsington. Not clear whether Woolf read MSS of Hopkins's criticism or letters, as well as/instead of his poetry. |
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