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Record 18190

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 26 Mar 1915 and 15 Sep 1920
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Lytton Strachey
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1880
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: The Voyage Out
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 26 March 1915
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18190  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of VIrginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1978
  Vol: 2
  Page: 65
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of VIrginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18190, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Diary entry describes house party at Eleanor Farm, near West Wittering, home of St John Hutchinson.

 

 

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