| Evidence: | 'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Oct 1928 and 11 Oct 1928 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Virginia Woolf |
| Title: | Orlando |
| Genre: | Fiction, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Codex |
| Publication details: | Published by the Hogarth Press 11 October 1928 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18163 | |
| 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: | 304 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 11 October 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. The word 'richest' is printed in italics. The book referred to is 'Orlando'. 'Lighthouse' refers to Virginia Woolf's novel 'To the Lighthouse'. 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. 304, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18163, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| In Vita's previous letter to Virginia, dated Tuesday 9 October 1928, she asks Virginia to send 'Orlando' before 4 o'clock. The publication date, 11 October, (the date of Vita's letter), is added by the editors in a footnote to this earlier letter. This establishes the date range of the reading experience and suggests that Vita read it in manuscript form. In a footnote to the letter of 11 October the editors add that Virginia sent Vita a specially bound copy of 'Orlando' on its publication day ie 11 October. I have used Vita's and Virginia's description of 'Orlando' as biography. It is based on Vita's life but it covers a wide time span and its subject is a man. |
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