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Record 18544

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel the usual incongruous shades of feeling [goes on to reflect further on Duckworth and his death]'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 1 May 1934
Country: Ireland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Waterville
   
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:Leonard Woolf
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1880
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: agnostic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Ireland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: report of death of George Duckworth
Genre: Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: In The Times, 28 April 1934
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18544  
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: 211
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 211, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18544, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

Sir George Duckworth half-brother to Virginia Woolf.

 

 

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