Evidence: | 'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying to read seems to be all about love-(blast it)-so I threw it across the room in anger because it made things worse.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 5 Nov 1925 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: Vita refers to 'this evening' in the previous sentence of the letter | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Novelist |
Religion: | Unknown |
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: | unknown |
Title: | [Elizabethan lyrics] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18452 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
Editor: | Nigel Nicolson | |
Title: | Vita and Harold | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 128 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 5 November 1925 written by Vita Sackvile-West to Harold Nicolson. |
Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 128, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18452, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Pippin is Vita's spaniel |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)