| Evidence: | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; it is 2 minutes to 7'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 8 May 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Greece | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: 6:58pm | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Greece |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Ethel Smyth |
| Title: | A Three-Legged Tour in Greece |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1927 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18338 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1982 | |
| Vol: | 4 | |
| Page: | 95 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18338, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Text identified by source ed., who also quotes from letter in which Virginia Woolf tells Smyth, 'We're taking -- L. is going to study -- your book' (p.95 n.1; letter is no. 2572 in The Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 5, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, 1979). |
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