Record Number: 17838
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all quivering -- saccharine with sentimentality; brittle with the kind of wit that makes sentiment freezing: But I'll try again'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1925 and 20 Apr 1931
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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Country of Origin:England
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Source Information:
Record ID:17838
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Joanne Trautmann Banks
Title:Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1989
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Page:284
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 284, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17838, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed notes (p.284 n.1) that Benson's first novel, Tobit Transformed, published 1931, and that Woolf had met Benson in 1925, Leonard Woolf having published some articles by her in The Nation -- so not clear whether Woolf refers here to Benson's fiction, or other writings.
