Evidence: | 'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story of the bank clerk who loses his memory, but having stopped at the book shop on the way and bought Orlando in Tauchnitz I began to read, and so lost myself that the evening is already nearly gone. Do you know, I never read Orlando without tears pricking my eyes?' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 5 Feb 1929 | ||||||||||
Country: | Germany | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Berlin NW23 specific address: 24 Brucken Allee |
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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: | Germany |
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: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Published by the Hogarth Press 11 October 1928 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18167 | |
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: | 335 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Tuesday 5 February 1929 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. 335, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18167, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
I have classified Orlando as biography/fiction as it was based on the life of Vita Sackville-West. However it covers a long period of time and the main character is a man. |
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