| Evidence: | 'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 21 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: | J.C. Squire |
| Title: | The Observer |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Book review |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | 21 October 1928 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18164 | |
| 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: | 308 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Sunday 21 October 1928 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. 308, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18164, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| In a footnote the editors explain that J.C. Squire had called Virginia Woolf's book 'Orlando', published 11 October 1928, 'a pleasant trifle' in his review in the Observer. |
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