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Record Number: 18107


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it among my puffs, where it will come in beautifully. The Dial is everything honest & vigorous & advanced; so I ought to feel crushed.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 May 1921 and 15 May 1921

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:

Virginia Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

25 Jan 1882

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Agnostic

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:

Kenneth Burke

Title:

'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Dial, May 1921

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18107

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

2

Page:

118

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 118, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18107, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See p.118 n.6 in source for identifying details of text read.

   
   
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