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Record 18199

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Aug 1922 and 22 Aug 1922
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:Boen Hawkesford
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Daughter of the Reverend James Boen Hawkesford, rector of Rodmell
Religion: Anglican
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: Katherine Mansfield
Title: Bliss
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18199  
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: 192
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 192, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18199, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Edward Shanks a critic, poet, and Sussex neighbour of Woolf and the Hawkesfords. Boen Hawkesford aged either 17 or 18 at date of diary entry.

 

 

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