| Evidence: | 'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become historical almost, like Veronese banquets through which flit a few masked Longhi figures, and ruffled by the uneasy impish breeze of French Freud. I re-enter their company after struggling with the Persian irregular verbs.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 8 Feb 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Indian Ocean | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: SS Rajputana in the Indian Ocean | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Indian Ocean |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Marcel Proust |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18021 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Louise de Salvo | |
| Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 109 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 8 February 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. It comes from a paragraph in which she mentions bathing in sea water full of phosphorus, and is part of her description of the atmophere on board ship. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18021, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Vita Sackville-West was travelling to Persia to join her husband Harold Nicolson who had been posted to the British Legation in Teheran. |
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