| Evidence: | '"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 5 May 1927 and 1 Jun 1927 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Hugh Walpole |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Mar 1884 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| 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: | To the Lighthouse |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published 5 May 1927 by the Hogarth Press |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18076 | |
| 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: | 225 | |
| Additional comments: | Comments made by Hugh Walpole to Vita Sackville-West and quoted by her in a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 1 June 1927. Vita introduces the quotation as 'compliments' from 'my poor despised friend Hugh'. He is identified as Hugh Walpole in an editorial footnote. 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. 225, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18076, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
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