Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
  RED International Logo

RED Australia logo


RED Canada logo
RED Netherlands logo
RED New Zealand logo

Record Number: 18548


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London, and was published at the same time. V[irginia] W[oolf] only read it, and expressed her views in a letter to Stephen Spender'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 28 May 1934 and 24 Jul 1934

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:

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

T. S. Eliot

Title:

The Rock. A Pageant Play

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1934

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18548

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:

230 n.21

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 230 n.21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18548, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed's note accompanies Woolf's remark (re dinner party on 23 July 1934) in Diary entry for 24 July 1934, that 'Tom [Eliot] remained on the verge; yellow, bony; but I regretted having denounced the Rock -- so much melancholy in his face' (p.230 in source).

   
   
Green Turtle Web Design