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Record Number: 18721


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1918 and 1 Jan 1919

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:

Mrs Humphry Ward

Title:

A Writer's Recollections

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Autumn 1918

Provenance

borrowed (public library)


Source Information:

Record ID:

18721

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1977

Vol:

1

Page:

300 n.7

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 300 n.7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18721, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed's note accompanies diary entry for 21 September 1919, in which Woolf records having recently read copy of same text, borrowed from Lewes public library; see pp.299-300 in source.

   
   
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