Record Number: 19019

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

3 Jan 1940

Country:

unknown

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

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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:

unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Stuart Mill

Title:

Autobiography

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1873

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19019

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:

255

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19019, accessed: 18 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Text read in first edition that had belonged to Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen; source ed. notes that the quotation copied into notebook labelled The Albatross/Letters &/Memoir was: 'This lesson of keeping my thoughts to myself, at that early age, was attended with some disadvantage.'