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Record 18024

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 10 Dec 1917
Country: England
Time: afternoon
Place: city: London
other location: Aerated Bread Company tearoom (one of chain)
   
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ezra Pound
Title: Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir
Genre: Biography, Arts / architecture
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1917
Provenance: borrowed (institution library)
? borrowed from Mudie's library

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18024  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1977
  Vol: 1
  Page: 90
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 90, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18024, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

Text identified by source ed.; see p.90 n.25.

 

 

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