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Record 18394

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Aug 1933 and 12 Aug 1933
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:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Geoffrey Cust Faber
Title: A Character Study of the Oxford Movement
Genre: Other religious, History, Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1933
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18394  
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: 172
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 172, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18394, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Woolf refers to accounts of John Henry Newman's breakdowns in 1820 and 1827 in Cust, pp. 59f adn 177f (see p.172 n.2 in source).

 

 

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