| Evidence: | Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 25 Jan 1915 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| 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: | 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: | Leslie Stephen |
| Title: | critical work on Pope |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17985 | |
| 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: | 28 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17985, accessed: 22 September 2023 | |
| Source ed. notes: 'Stephen wrote a biography of Pope (1880) for the "English Men of Letters" series; and an essay, "Pope as a Moralist" was included in his Hours in a Library (new edition, 1892)" (p.28 n.82). |
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