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Record 18618

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 21 May 1935 and 26 May 1935
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Aix-en-Provence
   
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:Virginia Woolf
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 25 Jan 1882
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: agnostic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Katherine Mansfield
Title: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield
Genre: Autobiog / Diary, Letters
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First published in 2 volumes, 1928; source ed. notes that Woolf owned 1934 Albatross Modern Continental Library edition.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18618  
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: 315
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 315, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18618, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

See p.315 n.9 for details on text.

 

 

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