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Record Number: 19034


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

5 Jul 1940

Country:

England

Time

evening

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:

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:

Sir Leslie Stephen

Title:

essay on Coleridge

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In Sir Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library (1892)

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19034

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:

300

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19034, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Stephen also authored DNB entry on Coleridge.

   
   
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