Record Number: 18740

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & found St Pauls, CG for the first time [...] then went to Burnets [of Garrick St.] [...] bought the E. Standard & found myself glorified as I read it in the Tube.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

18 Mar 1937

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
other location: On board underground train

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:

Howard Spring

Title:

review of Virginia Woolf, The Years

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

In The Evening Standard, 18 March 1937

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18740

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:

70

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18740, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None