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Record Number: 18960


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

16 Jan 1939

Country:

England

Time

n/a

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:

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:

Eugene Delacroix

Title:

Journal de Eugene Delacroix

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Autobiog / Diary, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. Andre Joubin. 3 vols. Paris, 1932

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18960

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:

199

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18960, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that Woolf 'possibly refers to a passage in the entry for 8 October 1822' (see p.199 n.5).

   
   
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