| Evidence: | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse,
1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] I think it a virtue in the
French language that it submits to prose, whereas English curls and knots and breaks off in
short spasms of rage. Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our
English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great
luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must
drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1906 and 25 Dec 1906 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Lyndhurst county: Hampshire |
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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: | Ernest Renan |
| Title: | Cahiers de Jeunesse |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1906 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17768 | |
| 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: | 34 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 34, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17768, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Source ed. notes that edition of Keats a Christmas gift to Stephen from Dickinson; see p.34 n.4. |
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