Record Number: 19691

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer kind of twilight humour don't you think [...] What enraged me in the book was the tragedy. If it is supposed to [italics]be[end italics] a tragedy it's absolutely hopeless; if it's supposed to be amusing, it simply fails.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1905 and 29 Oct 1905

Country:

Ceylon

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:

Colonial civil servant

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Ceylon

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

E. M. Forster

Title:

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1905

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19691

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:

105

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19691, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

'Taupe' (French: 'mole') Woolf and Strachey's nickname for Forster since student days at Cambridge.