Evidence: | 'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 16 Sep 1929 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Rebecca West |
Title: | Harriet Hume |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18186 | |
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: | 370 | |
Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Monday 16 September 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. 370, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18186, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
In a footnote the editors refer to Vita's radio broadcasts (which Vita mentions earlier in her letter). They add that she reviewed Rebecca West's 'Harriet Hume', "not favourably" in her talk on 19 September 1929. |
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