Evidence: | 'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 20 Nov 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | novelist |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19967 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
Editor: | Nigel Nicolson | |
Title: | Vita and Harold | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 174 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 20 November 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. |
Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19967, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
The quotation comes at the end of a letter in which Vita's reflections on her writing are prompted by comments made to her in a recent letter from Virginia Woolf. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)