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Record Number: 19812


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & the Lit. Sup. And that is about all I've done today.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

12 Mar 1914

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Lockeridge, Marlborough
specific address: The Lacket

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:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Times Literary Supplement

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19812

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:

204

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 204, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19812, accessed: 23 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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