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Record Number: 19813


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

12 Mar 1914

Country:

England

Time

evening

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:

Giles Lytton Strachey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Leonard Woolf


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Lytton Strachey

Title:

Life of Cardinal Manning

Genre:

Other religious, Essays / Criticism, History, Biography

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

19813

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:

205

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 205, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19813, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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