| Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have just got to the end practically of the last batch I ordered out. I suddenly thought I must read Maupassant again & when I reread the tale about the child who is pinched on the buttocks by the adulterating captain I thought I was right. I also read [the Earl of Cromer's] Modern Egypt & you can deduce my state of mind by the fact that I think it is the greatest book written in the last 25 years.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1909 and 1 Feb 1909 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Guy de Maupassant |
| Title: | 'tale' |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19798 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
| Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 146 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 146, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19798, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
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