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Record 17814

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922: 'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too. I have him on the table. His pages are cut. Leonard is already 30 pages deep. I look, and sip, and shudder.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Apr 1922 and 14 Apr 1922
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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 1880
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer/publisher
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Joyce
Title: Ulysses
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1922
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17814  
Source - Print  
  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: 141
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17814, accessed: 19 April 2024

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