| Evidence: | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I could write: I mean the idea is that its among the painters not the writers one finds stability, consolation. This refers to a sentence of his about the profundity of the painter's meaning; & how a writer always superficialises.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 16 Jan 1939 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: London Library |
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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: | T. S. Eliot |
| Title: | valedictory editorial article |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | In The Criterion, January 1939 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18959 | |
| 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: | 199 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18959, accessed: 23 September 2023 | |
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