Record Number: 19658
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refusing to fly London with the rest of the world [...] I like wandering through the deserted streets tawdry with painter's ladders & half starved cats & soiled fluttering tags of newspapers [...] It fascinates me by its bare brutality of ugliness, & produces the aesthetic titillation of a slum. During that season too I batten upon Balzac & his hold remains on me for weeks afterwards so that I am rereading Le Pere Goriot out on the cliffs & rocks here.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Aug 1901 and 1 Sep 1901
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Tintagel
county: Cornwall
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Undergraduate student
Religion:Jewish
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Le Pere Goriot
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19658
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:18
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19658, accessed: 24 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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