| Evidence: | Sunday 19 January 1936: 'I went up to an elderly stout woman reading the paper at the Times Book Club the other day. It was Margery Strachey [sic]. What are you doing? I said. Nothing! she replied. "I've got nowhere to go & nothing to do."
'And I left her, sitting reading The Times.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1936 and 19 Jan 1936 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: The Times Book Club, 42 Wigmore Street |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Marjorie Strachey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1882 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| 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: | |
| Title: | The Times |
| Genre: | Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18728 | |
| 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: | 9 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18728, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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