| Evidence: | 'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 13 Feb 1929 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: San Michele di Pagano, Rapallo specific address: Villa Cuba |
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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: | Italy |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Arnold Zweig |
| Title: | The Case of Sergeant Grisha |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18168 | |
| 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: | 341 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday 13 February 1929 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. She is complaining in her letter that novels have 'been reduced to mere formula'. 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. 341, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18168, accessed: 30 April 2024 | |
| "The Case of Sergeant Grisha" was probably published by the Hogarth Press, as Vita mentions earlier in the letter that Leonard Woolf, owner of the Hogarth Press, sent some novels to her. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)