Record Number: 17918

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1940 and 13 Aug 1940

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Chatham
county: Kent

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Benedict Nicolson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1914

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Lance-bombadier, anti-aircraft battery

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

Roger Fry

Genre:

Biography, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1940

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17918

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:

431

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 431, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17918, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Nicolson the son of Woolf's former lover Vita Sackville-West.