| Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like --
who's the man in the bible --? Which by the way, I have bought and am reading. And Renan. And
the New Testament; so don't call me heathen in future.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1934 and 8 Jan 1935 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Ernest Renan |
| Title: | St Paul |
| Genre: | Bible, Other religious, Essays / Criticism, History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1869 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17859 | |
| 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: | 357 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 357, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17859, accessed: 29 May 2023 | |
| Source ed. identifies text read (see p.357 n.3). |
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