| Evidence: | '[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her surroundings (unpublished).' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1906 and 16 Apr 1906 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Giggleswick, Settle county: Yorkshire |
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| Reader: | Virginia Stephen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walter Savage Landor |
| Title: | Pericles and Aspasia |
| Genre: | Classics, Fiction, History, Poetry, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1836 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17766 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Joanne Trautmann Banks | |
| Title: | Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 25 n.2 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 25 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17766, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
| Source ed.'s note accompanies letter of 16 April 1906 to Violet Dickinson in which Virginia Stephen reports: 'I lead the life of a Solitary: read and write and eat my meal, and walk out upon the moor, and have tea [...] and then dine alone and read my book' (see p.25 in source). |
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