Record Number: 18195

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

17 Dec 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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Roger Fry

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1866

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Artist/Art critic

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

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

Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Julien Benda

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Pamphlet

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18195

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:

150

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18195, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that Benda's published works at this period included Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la mobilite (1912) and Belphegor (1918); see p.150 n.14.