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Record Number: 18958


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with Willy Maugham & de la Mare: which are the best books for the illiterate: then about being Jews: then about technique: the word broken in the Bible; L[eonard]. read passages.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

15 Nov 1938

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: London

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:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Jewish

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Virginia Woolf Clive Bell


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Bible

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18958

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:

187

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 187, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18958, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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