| Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901:
'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refusing to fly London with the rest of the world [...] I like wandering through the deserted streets tawdry with painter's ladders & half starved cats & soiled fluttering tags of newspapers [...] It fascinates me by its bare brutality of ugliness, & produces the aesthetic titillation of a slum. During that season too I batten upon Balzac & his hold remains on me for weeks afterwards so that I am rereading Le Pere Goriot out on the cliffs & rocks here.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1901 and 1 Sep 1901 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Tintagel county: Cornwall |
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| Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Nov 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Undergraduate student |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| 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: | Honore De Balzac |
| Title: | Le Pere Goriot |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19658 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
| Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 18 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19658, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
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