| Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all quivering -- saccharine
with sentimentality; brittle with the kind of wit that makes sentiment freezing: But I'll try
again'.
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1925 and 20 Apr 1931 | ||||||||||
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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: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Stella Benson |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17838 | |
| 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: | 284 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 284, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17838, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| Source ed notes (p.284 n.1) that Benson's first novel, Tobit Transformed, published 1931, and that Woolf had met Benson in 1925, Leonard Woolf having published some articles by her in The Nation -- so not clear whether Woolf refers here to Benson's fiction, or other writings. |
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