Record Number: 18257
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) -- both in Constable's English reprints of 1895; and on Gabriel Harvey's Works, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1884; his Commonplace Book, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1913; and his Letter Book, 1573-1580, ed. E. J. L. Scott, 1884.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 8 Dec 1929 and 31 Dec 1930
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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: Title:A Discourse of English Poetrie
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsConstable's English Reprint series, 1895
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18257
Source:VIrginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:270 n.2
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
VIrginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 270 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18257, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed.'s note accompanies diary entry for 8 December 1929, in which Woolf notes: 'I am free to begin reading Elizabethans -- the little unknown writers, whom I, so ignorant am I, have never heard of, Puttenham, Webb, Harvey. This thought fills me with joy -- no overstatement. To begin reading with a pen in my hand, discovering, pouncing, thinking of theories, when the ground is new, remains one of my great excitements' (p.270).
