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Record 18716

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [regarding negotiations toward armistice], which we bought & devoured in the [train.]'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 24 Oct 1918
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: other location: on board train from Kingston
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reading Group:Leonard and Virginia Woolf
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writers
Religion: Jewish and agnostic
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: newspaper report of US presidential message
Genre: Politics, Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: 24 October 1918
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18716  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1977
  Vol: 1
  Page: 207
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18716, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

See p.208 n.29 in source for background on text read.

 

 

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