Evidence: | Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard; makes me feel I have no right to go on; as if my life was at the expense of his. And I had not been kind; not asked him to dinner & so on.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 13 Sep 1927 and 20 Sep 1927 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Rodmell county: Sussex |
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Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Agnostic |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 18245 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 156 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 156, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18245, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Philip Ritchie, a friend of Lytton Strachey's, died aged 28 followsing a tonsillectomy on 13 September 1927; see p.10 n.10 and p.156 n.7 in source for further background. Source ed. also notes, at p.156 n.7: 'Despite L[eonard] W[oolf]'s scorn, V[irginia] W[oolf] used to take the arch-Conservative Morning Post during the summer months at Rodmell.' |
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