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Record Number: 18952


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have panted for for years and years'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 May 1938 and 30 May 1938

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:

Philippa Strachey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1872

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

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:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

Three Guineas

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Education, pacifism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1937

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18952

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:

147 n.17

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 147 n.17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18952, accessed: 23 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Text read not published until 3 June 1937

   
   
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