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Record 18231

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she thought "very clever". But Hardy could not remember it.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 May 1926 and 23 Jul 1926
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:

Reading Group:Thomas and Florence Hardy
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer and wife
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Aldous Huxley
Title: Two or Three Graces
Genre: Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: May 1926
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18231  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: 3
  Page: 101
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18231, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Florence Hardy likely to have read text aloud; Woolf notes in same diary entry: '[Hardy] Said his wife had to read to him -- his eyes were now so bad' (Thomas Hardy born 1840).

 

 

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