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Record Number: 18199


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1922 and 22 Aug 1922

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:

Boen Hawkesford

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Daughter of the Reverend James Boen Hawkesford, rector of Rodmell

Religion:

Anglican

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:

Katherine Mansfield

Title:

Bliss

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18199

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:

192

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 192, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18199, accessed: 03 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Edward Shanks a critic, poet, and Sussex neighbour of Woolf and the Hawkesfords. Boen Hawkesford aged either 17 or 18 at date of diary entry.

   
   
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