| Evidence: | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written:
'Reading this August:
Souvenirs de Tocqueville
Any number of biographies --
Coleridge -- one or two poems.
Lord Kilbracken memoirs.
Shaw Pen portraits.
Ainslie memoirs.
Vita's novel
[...]
Nothing much good --
except de T:
Coleridges letters; but failed
to finish the 2nd vol.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1932 and 31 Aug 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Title: | Souvenirs |
| Genre: | Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | first published 1893 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18372 | |
| 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: | 122 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 122, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18372, accessed: 06 December 2023 | |
| Details of texts supplied by source ed., p.122 n.2. |
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