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Record 3787

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this utter coldness and indifference'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 10 Oct 1919 and 10 Nov 1919
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Ospedaletti
specific address: Casetta Deerholm
   
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:Katherine Mansfield
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1888
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist and Critic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virginia Woolf
Title: Night and Day
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3787  
Source - Print  
  Author: Katherine Mansfield
  Editor: Vincent O'Sullivan
  Title: Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 147
  Additional comments: Letter from Katherine Mansfield to J.M. Murry, 10 Nov 1919

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.), Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990), p. 147, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3787, accessed: 29 March 2024

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