Evidence: | 'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll have to explain verbally some day. Unless you can guess. How well you write, though, confound you. When I read you, I feel no one has ever written English prose before, - Knocked it about, put it in its place, made it into a servant.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 17 Jun 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Virginia Woolf |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18032 | |
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: | 144 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 17 June 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. 'How well you write' is printed in italics. 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. 144, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18032, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
As Vita Sackville-West was referring to Virginia Woolf's works in general it is not possible to specify a single place of experience. However the letter from which the quotation comes was written at Vita's home: Long Barn, Weald, Sevenoaks. |
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