Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906:
'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I believe I was coming for a month as A[ssistant]G[overnment]A[gent] Mannar. I am now on circuit which means that I ride about 10 miles each day through a desolation of sand to visit a few huts which are called villages [...] I ride through the sand from 6 A.M. to 9 & lie in my tent during the heat of the day & read Dickens whom of course I now consider the greatest of novelists. At any rate he is astonishingly amusing in Kaddukkarankudiyiruppu (which means the village of the man of the Jungle).'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Aug 1906 and 27 Aug 1906 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Kaddukkarankudiyiruppu | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Colonial civil servant |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Ceylon |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19790 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 120-121 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 120-121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19790, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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