Evidence: | Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1932 and 2 Feb 1932 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | H. G. Wells |
Title: | The Science of Life |
Genre: | Science, Natural history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1930 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18335 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1982 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 68-69 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 68-69, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18335, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Woolf refers to 'the case of [...] "a three-year-old Buff Orpington" in Section 7, "Reversal of Sex", vol. II, p.374 of H. G. Wells' The Science of Life, 1930' -- source ed., p.69 n.4. |
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