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Record 18804

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 12 Mar 1937 and 2 Apr 1937
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:John Maynard Keynes
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1883
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Academic economist
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: The Years
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: March 1937
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18804  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1984
  Vol: 5
  Page: 76
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 76, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18804, accessed: 23 April 2024

Additional comments:

See Woolf's diary entry of 4 April 1937, p.77 in source, for further remarks of Keynes regarding The Years ('thinks one scene, E[leanor] & Crosby, beats Tchehov's [sic] Cherry Orchard').

 

 

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