Record Number: 17825

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of English literature? Walter Raleigh calls Shakespeare "Billy Shaxs" -- Blake, "Bill" -- a good poem "a bit of all right." This shocks me. I've been reading his letters.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1926 and 17 Feb 1926

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

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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:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Walter Raleigh

Title:

Letters

Genre:

Drama, Essays / Criticism, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

2 vols, 1926

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17825

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Joanne Trautmann Banks

Title:

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1989

Vol:

n/a

Page:

202

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 202, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17825, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None