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Record 18387

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 19 May 1933 and 21 May 1933
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Draguignan
   
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:

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: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: J. G. Frazer
Title: The Golden Bough
Genre: Other religious, Classics, History, Astrology / alchemy / occult
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Abridged in one volume, 1929.
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18387  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1982
  Vol: 4
  Page: 159
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 159, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18387, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes: 'L[eonard] W[oolf] had an abridged one-volume edition (1929) of J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 12 volumes 1890-1915' (p.159 n.6).

 

 

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