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.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1926 and 23 Jul 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Aldous Huxley |
Title: | Two or Three Graces |
Genre: | Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | May 1926 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18231 | |
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: | 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 |
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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