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Record 18951

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by 3Gs." Theo Bosanquet who has a review copy read her extracts.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 May 1938 and 24 May 1938
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:Theodora Bosanquet
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: Three Guineas
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Education, pacifism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Review copy, 1937
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18951  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1984
  Vol: 5
  Page: 141
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18951, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Text read not published until 3 June 1937. Bosanquet (d.1961) the 'close friend and companion' of Lady Rhondda, founder and editor of Time and Tide, in which Bosanquet's review of Three Guineas appeared on 4 June 1938; see p.141 n.8 in source.

 

 

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