| 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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| 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: 23 May 2013 | |
| Pippin is Vita's spaniel |
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