| Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the
reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of
reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe
thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1940 and 13 Aug 1940 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | unknown |
| 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: | Benedict Nicolson |
| Title: | letter to Virginia Woolf |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 17917 | |
| 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: | 431 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 431, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17917, accessed: 07 June 2023 | |
| Source ed. notes that Nicolson 'was then serving as a lance-bombadier in an anti-aircraft battery at Chatham, Kent' (p.431 n.1). |
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