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: | city: Chatham county: Kent |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Virginia Woolf |
Title: | Roger Fry |
Genre: | Biography, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1940 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17918 | |
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=17918, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Nicolson the son of Woolf's former lover Vita Sackville-West. |
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