Evidence: | Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came home & read -- Stephen Spender [The Destructive Element] [...] It has considerable swing & fluency; & some general ideas; but peters out in the usual litter of an undergraduates table [discusses text further]'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 18 Apr 1935 and 20 Apr 1935 | ||||||||||
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 |
Author: | Stephen Spender |
Title: | The Destructive Element |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 29 April 1935 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18614 | |
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: | 303 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1982), 4, p. 303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18614, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Woolf reading an advance copy of text, sent to her by Spender; see p.301 n.13 in source. |
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