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Record 20410

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revels in the land.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 12 Aug 1899
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Margaret Symonds
Title: Days Spent on a Doge's Farm
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1893
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20410  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Nigel Nicolson
  Title: The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1975
  Vol: 1, 1888-1912
  Page: 27
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1975), 1, 1888-1912, p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20410, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

The editor's note supplies the details of the text.

 

 

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