| Evidence: | 'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am. It came this morning by the first post and I have been reading it ever since, and am now half-way through. Virginia sent it to me in a lovely leather binding - bless her.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 11 Oct 1928 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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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: | Virginia Woolf |
| Title: | Orlando |
| Genre: | Fiction, Biography, Novel in the form of a mock-biography of Vita Sackville-West |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published 11 October 1928 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 19970 | |
| 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: | 205 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 11 October 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 205, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19970, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| The editor describes "Orlando" in a footnote as 'a novel in the form of a mock biography of Vita, Virginia's longest love letter to her', and adds that 'Vita was not allowed to read a word of it until it was published'. |
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