| Evidence: | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way. The parson -- Skinner -- who shot himself emerges like a bloody sun in a fog. a book worth perhaps looking at again in a clearer mood [goes on to remark further on this text] [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 23 Dec 1930 and 27 Dec 1930 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Rodmell county: Sussex |
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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: | The Rev. John Skinner |
| Title: | The Journal of a Somerset Rector |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Ed. Howard Coombs and the Rev. Arthur N. Bax, 1930 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18273 | |
| 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: | 340-341; 340 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 340-341; 340, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18273, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
| Source ed. notes this text later discussed by Woolf in The Common Reader. Second Series (1935); see p.340 n.17. Woolf discusses Skinner further in her diary entry for 29 December 1930; see pp.341-43 in source. |
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