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Record Number: 19159


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I could follow, about Cambridge youth; their philosophy; its consequences [...] The beauty & unworldliness of it. I was impressed by M. & felt a little flittery & stupid. Then he had to rest; it turned grey & cold. M. had to be slowly conveyed -- a bed made on the ground floor at Charleston. Nevertheless a very human satisfactory meeting.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 11 Sep 1937 and 12 Sep 1937

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:

John Maynard Keynes

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1882

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Academic economist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Members of 'Memoir Club' including Virginia Woolf.


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Maynard Keynes

Title:

'Memoir Club' paper

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Autobiog / Diary, Philosophy, Education

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19159

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:

168-169

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 168-169, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19159, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that paper published posthumously as 'My Early Beliefs' in Keynes's Two Memoirs (1949); see p.169 n.7.

   
   
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