| Evidence: | 'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thought they were rather good.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 25 Sep 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | night | ||||||||||
| 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: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Title: | The Land |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | Published 1926 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18457 | |
| 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: | 163 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 26 September 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 163, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18457, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The editor has added in brackets that the Georgics is "The Land", Vita Sackville-West's poem. She and Harold referred to it by as the Georgics in their correspondence. |
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