Evidence: | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me
to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary
people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the
likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also
reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday
in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman
in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1915 and 19 Jan 1915 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Agnostic |
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: | Jules Michelet |
Title: | Histoire de France |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17979 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1977 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 23 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 23, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17979, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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