| Evidence: | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, & dine alone, & sleep over Mr Clarkson's memoirs. He had a sexual kink, & a passion for fish'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 11 Jan 1936 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| 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: | Harry J. Greenwall |
| Title: | The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson |
| Genre: | Biography, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1936 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18727 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | 5 | |
| Page: | 6-7 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 6-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18727, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| Willy Clarkson a wig-maker and theatrical costumier who had assisted Woolf and others in the 'Dreadnought Hoax' of 1910 (see p.7 n.11 in source). |
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