Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901:
'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over an immense fire with a wind roaring round the house [...] I have been sharing my chair with my dog & reading the Book of Job again & now I feel quite sunk in the drowsy dreaminess of brain-weariness [...] ever so many thanks for the book which is a perfection of delight to me. If there is one thing which spoils one's pleasure in reading Job & Ecclesiastes it is the horror of those two barbarous columns in the ordinary barbarously bound bible -- & I have always prayed for a relief from those awful double columns, which are the hall-mark of religious respectability.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 20 Mar 1901 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Putney | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Nov 1880 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Undergraduate student |
Religion: | Jewish |
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: | |
Title: | The Book of Job |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 19656 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 13 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19656, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Copy of text ('a handsome edition') given to Woolf by Strachey, who had bought it on previous day; see p.13 n.2 in source. |
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