| Evidence: | Wednesday 23 July 1930: 'Lady L[avery] discussed the air crash [...] I was driving down to the Temple with Vita [Sackville-West], & we bought a Standard in the gateway. "Titled victims" she said [...] Then I read Lady Ednam, Marquis Dusserre (for so they reported him) & then in the stop press Lord Dufferin [goes on to record Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband's, reaction to news]'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 21 Jul 1930 and 23 Jul 1930 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writers |
| Religion: | various |
| 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: | |
| Title: | report of air crash on 21 July |
| Genre: | Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | In the Standard |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18265 | |
| 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: | 309 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1980), 3, p. 309, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18265, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| Victims killed in air crash on 21 July 1930 (as well as two crew) were: the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; Viscountess Ednam; Sir Edward Ward, and Mrs Henrik Loeffler; Dufferin and Ednam apparently known to Sackville-West and her husband, whose telephone call to his mother with the news Woolf also records; see p.309 n.8 in source. |
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