| Evidence: | Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1933 and 12 Aug 1933 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Geoffrey Cust Faber |
| Title: | A Character Study of the Oxford Movement |
| Genre: | Other religious, History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1933 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18394 | |
| 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: | 172 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 172, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18394, accessed: 29 May 2023 | |
| Woolf refers to accounts of John Henry Newman's breakdowns in 1820 and 1827 in Cust, pp. 59f adn 177f (see p.172 n.2 in source). |
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