| Evidence: | 'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. I simpered. He took them out into the garden, spread a rug very carefully on the grass, and began to read. I fled upstairs and packed. After an hour I re-appeared. The Laureate was still reading.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 28 Jun 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning: Earlier in the letter Vita mentions that her conversation with Bridges takes place 'after breakfast'. | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Robert Bridges |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Religion: | Unknown |
| Country of origin: | Unknown |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Title: | The Land |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs |
| Publication details: | Published by Heinemann |
| Provenance: | read in situ Robert Bridges was reading proofs owned by Vita Sackville-West |
| Record ID: | 18454 | |
| 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: | 148 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 28 June 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18454, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The editor has added a footnote explaining that Robert Bridges was Poet Laureate and that Vita had been staying the night at his house near Oxford. |
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