Evidence: | Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was trying to make a fire: a man in townish clothes was lying on his side in the grass [...] When we [Woolf and husband Leonard] came back after an hour the woman had got the fire to burn [...] She was cutting a slice of bread off a loaf, but there was no butter. At night it became very cold, & as we sat down to our duck L. said he wondered how they [s]pent the night. I said probably they go to the workhouse. This fitted in well with What shall we do then, wh. I read in the train. But incidentally I'm not so much impressed as I expected by it. Vivid, but rather wordy so far.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 6 Mar 1937 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: On board train | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Leo Tolstoy |
Title: | What Then Must We Do? |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18738 | |
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: | 66 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 66, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18738, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Text read conjecturally identified by source ed.; see p.65 n.2, which accompanies Diary entry for 7 March 1937, in which Woolf records: 'To Cockfosters yesterday, & saw the old tramp woman on the bank, lighting a damp fire & eating dry bread. I took What shall we do then in my pocket.' |
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