Record Number: 18387

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 19 May 1933 and 21 May 1933

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Draguignan

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:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

J. G. Frazer

Title:

The Golden Bough

Genre:

Other religious, Classics, History, Astrology / alchemy / occult

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Abridged in one volume, 1929.

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18387

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:

159

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 159, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18387, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes: 'L[eonard] W[oolf] had an abridged one-volume edition (1929) of J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 12 volumes 1890-1915' (p.159 n.6).