Record Number: 18273

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way. The parson -- Skinner -- who shot himself emerges like a bloody sun in a fog. a book worth perhaps looking at again in a clearer mood [goes on to remark further on this text] [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 23 Dec 1930 and 27 Dec 1930

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Rodmell
county: Sussex

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:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

The Rev. John Skinner

Title:

The Journal of a Somerset Rector

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. Howard Coombs and the Rev. Arthur N. Bax, 1930

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18273

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

3

Page:

340-341; 340

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 340-341; 340, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18273, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes this text later discussed by Woolf in The Common Reader. Second Series (1935); see p.340 n.17. Woolf discusses Skinner further in her diary entry for 29 December 1930; see pp.341-43 in source.