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Record Number: 17824


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and liking it. I'm awfully vain I know; and I was on pins and needles about sending it to Jacques; and now I feel exquisitely relieved; not flattered: but one does want that side of one to be acceptable'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1925 and 11 Mar 1925

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:

Gwen Raverat

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1885

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Artist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

Mrs Dalloway

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown, In proof copy

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17824

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Joanne Trautmann Banks

Title:

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1989

Vol:

n/a

Page:

194

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 194, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17824, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes, regarding this letter: 'Jacques Raverat's last letter to Virginia was about Mrs Dalloway, which she had sent him in proof. To it Gwen appended a note telling Vrginia about his death, from multiple sclerosis, on 7 March' (see p.193 n.2).

   
   
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