Record Number: 18727

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

11 Jan 1936

Country:

England

Time

evening

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:

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:

Harry J. Greenwall

Title:

The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson

Genre:

Biography, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1936

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18727

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

5

Page:

6-7

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 6-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18727, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Willy Clarkson a wig-maker and theatrical costumier who had assisted Woolf and others in the 'Dreadnought Hoax' of 1910 (see p.7 n.11 in source).