| Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D.
H. Lawrence, lured on by the portrait of Ottoline [Morrell] which appears from time to time
[...] There is no suspense or mystery: water is all semen: I get a little bored, and make out
the riddles too easily. Only this puzzles me: what does it mean when a woman [Gudrun] does
eurythmics in front of a herd of Highland cattle?'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jun 1921 and 20 Jun 1921 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Sussex | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| 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: | D. H. Lawrence |
| Title: | Women in Love |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17812 | |
| 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: | 134 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17812, accessed: 22 September 2023 | |
| Source ed. notes that in Women in Love, 'Lawrence drew an unpleasant portrait of Ottoline Morrell, his friend and patroness, in the character of Hermione Roddice' (p.134 n.1 in source). |
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