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Record Number: 16878


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write an essay about life in the WRNS'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

3 Oct 1943

Country:

England

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:

Barbara Pym

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

2 Jun 1913

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

A Room of One's Own

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

16878

Source:

Print

Author:

Jenny Hartley

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

122

Additional Comments:

From Barbara Pym, "A Very Private Eye. Diaries Letters and Notebooks", eds Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (1984)

Citation:

Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War (London, 1999), p. 122, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16878, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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