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Record 18724

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 18 Dec 1919 and 28 Dec 1919
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charles Greville
Title: Memoirs
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Ed. Henry Reeve, in three series: 1874, 1885, 1887
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18724  
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: 317
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1977), 1, p. 317, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18724, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes that Woolf had inherited her parents' copies of text, 'or at least the six volumes of the first two parts'; see p.317 n.6.

 

 

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