Evidence: | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he added a "compendious Memoir of
her uneventful and rather secluded life."' See Additional Comments. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jul 1918 and 4 Aug 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | 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 |
Author: | William Michael Rossetti |
Title: | Memoir of Christina Rossetti |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In The Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti (1904) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18045 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1977 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 178 n.3 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 178 n.3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18045, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Source ed.'s note accompanies diary entry for Monday 4 August in which Woolf writes: 'While waiting to buy a book in which to record my impressions first of Christina Rossetti, then of Byron, I had better write them here,' going on to comment: 'Christina has the great distinction of being a born poet [...] But if I were bringing a case against God she is one of the first witnesses I should call [...] First she starved herself of love [...] then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded [discusses Rossetti's life in further detail]' (pp.178-79 in source). Source ed. also notes errors in some of Woolf's recollections of names in text. |
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