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Record 18221

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great pleasure".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1925 and 1 Jun 1925
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:Thomas Hardy
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1840
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Church of England
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 Common Reader
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1925
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18221  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: 3
  Page: 25
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 25, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18221, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes that Woolf refers to letter of 31 May 1925, from Florence Hardy; see p.25 n.2.

 

 

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