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Record 19034

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 5 Jul 1940
Country: England
Time: evening
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: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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Title: essay on Coleridge
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: In Sir Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library (1892)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19034  
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: 300
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19034, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Stephen also authored DNB entry on Coleridge.

 

 

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