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Record 19818

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after tea I took him for a walk [...] Then I read Dorothy Osborne until bedtime.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 24 Sep 1928
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Rodmell
county: Sussex
specific address: Monk's House
   
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: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Dorothy Osborne
Title: The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
Genre: Autobiog / Diary, Letters
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19818  
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: 233
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 233, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19818, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes that text had recently been reviewed by Virginia Woolf for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Republic; see p.233 n.6.

 

 

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