Evidence: | 'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's
affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many years and contributed to his
estrangement from his wife.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Feb 1936 and 8 Feb 1936 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Thomas Wright |
Title: | Life of Charles Dickens |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1935 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17863 | |
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: | 371 n.1 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 371 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17863, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Ed.'s note accompanies letter of 8 February 1936 in which Virginia Woolf writes to Hugh Walpole: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it is [...] So enthusiastic am I that I've got a new life of him [Dickens]: which makes me dislike him as a human being. Did you know -- you who know everything? -- the story of the actress?' (pp.370-371). |
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