| Evidence: | 'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1901 and 1 Sep 1901 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | The 'X' Society |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Cambridge undergraduate students |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | Paracelsus |
| Genre: | Fiction, Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19659 | |
| 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 n.2 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 18 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19659, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| Source ed.'s note accompanies letter of 1 September 1901 in which Leonard Woolf writes to Lytton Strachey: 'I began a play but after writing half the first scene it suddenly struck me that the plot was nearly the same [...] as the motif of Paracelsus so I subsided' (p.13). |
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