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Record Number: 19044


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 25 Oct 1940 and 1 Nov 1940

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:

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:

E. F. Benson

Title:

Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1940

Provenance

Borrowed (circulating library)
sent as Times Book Club choice


Source Information:

Record ID:

19044

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:

334

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 334, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19044, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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