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Record 17918

Reading Experience:

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].'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1940 and 13 Aug 1940
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Chatham
county: Kent
   
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:Benedict Nicolson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1914
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Lance-bombadier, anti-aircraft battery
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: Roger Fry
Genre: Biography, Arts / architecture
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1940
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17918  
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: 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=17918, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Nicolson the son of Woolf's former lover Vita Sackville-West.

 

 

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