Record Number: 19679

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903: 'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team? I wish you would as I am in a raging temper, which I try to cure by reading Stout's Psychology.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1903 and 20 Jun 1903

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Stout

Title:

[on Psychology]

Genre:

Social Science, Psychology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19679

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

30

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19679, accessed: 16 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that it is not clear whether Woolf was reading Stout's Analytic Psychology (1896), or his A Manual of Psychology (1899); see p.30 n.2.