| Evidence: | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 3 Jan 1940 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
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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: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Stuart Mill |
| Title: | Autobiography |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1873 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 19019 | |
| 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: | 255 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1984), 5, p. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19019, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Text read in first edition that had belonged to Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen; source ed. notes that the quotation copied into notebook labelled The Albatross/Letters &/Memoir was: 'This lesson of keeping my thoughts to myself, at that early age, was attended with some disadvantage.' |
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