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Record 19828

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce after his retirement and when he lived in Granada; hearing that Virginia and I were going to stay in the mountains above, he asked us to come and spend the night at his house. I had a long talk with him and he was very bitter against [Lord] Lugard [imperialist attacked by Woolf in text], claiming that a great deal of the credit for indirect rule etc., whicb Lugard claimed himself, ought to have gone to him, Temple.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jul 1920 and 30 Apr 1923
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
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:Charles Temple
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: Colonial civil servant (retired)
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Leonard Woolf
Title: Empire and Commerce in Africa
Genre: Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1920
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19828  
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: 439-440
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 439-440, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19828, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Perham, a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, at work on a biography of Lugard; see p.439 n.2 in source. Leonard and Virginia Woolf travelled in Spain during spring 1923.

 

 

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