| Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficulty is that that is precisely what it does do, and now I cannot write a sentence, because as soon as I get one down, I see that it is exactly like some horror of Miss [Marie] Corelli [popular novelist]'s quoted as a warning in that damned book.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1918 and 22 Sep 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | 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 |
| Author: | H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler |
| Title: | The King's English |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 19823 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
| Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 278 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 278, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19823, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
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