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Record 19656

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 20 Mar 1901
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Putney
   
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 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The Book of Job
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19656  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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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