Evidence: | 'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the common reader, a pair of spectacles, a pencil, go in to dinner,' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 29 May 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | The Common Reader |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Published 23 April 1925 by the Hogarth Press |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18063 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
Editor: | Louise DeSalvo | |
Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 138 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 29 May 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18063, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
This is part of a long sentence in which Vita lists and reflects on the ways in which she is spending her time at Long Barn during this period. |
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