| Evidence: | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hole in it, and the wind is blowing through me, and I'm reading de Quincey, and Richardson, and again de Quincey- again de Quincey because I'm in the middle of writing about him, and my God Vita, if you happen to know do wire what's the essential difference between prose and poetry - It cracks my poor brain to consider.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 15 Jul 1926 and 8 Aug 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 52 Tavistock Square |
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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: | Novelist |
| 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: | Thomas de Quincey |
| Title: | Impassioned Prose |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18040 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| 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: | 150 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West. The date is shown as [19? July]. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18040, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| The editors have added a note stating that Virginia Woolf was writing about de Quincey's 'Impassioned Prose'. I have shown a date range between Virginia's previous and subsequent letters to Vita, as the editors have indicated that the date of the letter, and therefore the date of the reading experience, is uncertain. |
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