| Evidence: | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to hear it.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 2 Oct 1928 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Rouen specific address: Offranville |
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| Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | novelist |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Vita Sackville-West, Ethel Sands, Nan Hudson, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Title: | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Memoir |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | Published in "Moments of Being" ed. Jeanne Schulkind 1976 |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 19969 | |
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| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Nigel Nicolson | |
| Title: | Vita and Harold | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 204 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 2 October 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 204, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19969, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The editor notes in a footnote that Virginia had read this memoir to the Memoir Club in 1922. Details about the other people present at this reading experience, and where it took place, appear earlier in the letter. |
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