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Record 18033

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 13 Apr 1918 and 18 Apr 1918
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Guildford
county: Surrey
   
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:Roger Fry
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 14 Dec 1866
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Virginia Woolf
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Marcel Proust
Title: Du Cote de chez Swann
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1913
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18033  
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: 140
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 140, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18033, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Text identified by source ed. (see p.140 n.28).

 

 

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