| Evidence: | 'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 20 Aug 1927 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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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: | Helen Waddell |
| Title: | The Wandering Scholars |
| Genre: | Classics, Fiction, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1927 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18083 | |
| 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: | 244 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Saturday 20 August 1927 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. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18083, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Information about the author and date of 'The Wandering Scholars' is provided in an editorial footnote. The editors add, "The book, which was about the study of Latin in the Middle Ages, attracted attention far outside professional acacdemic circles." |
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