Record Number: 18338

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; it is 2 minutes to 7'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

8 May 1932

Country:

Greece

Time

evening: 6:58pm

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:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Jewish

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Greece

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ethel Smyth

Title:

A Three-Legged Tour in Greece

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1927

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18338

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1982

Vol:

4

Page:

95

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18338, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Text identified by source ed., who also quotes from letter in which Virginia Woolf tells Smyth, 'We're taking -- L. is going to study -- your book' (p.95 n.1; letter is no. 2572 in The Letters of Virginia Woolf vol 5, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, 1979).