Record Number: 17851

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seemed to me put with masterly brevity; most true.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1933 and 26 Nov 1933

Country:

n/a

Time

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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:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Quentin Bell

Title:

letter

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In Time and Tide

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17851

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:

335

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 335, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17851, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. explains that Bell's letter '[attacked] the argument that Germany was entitled to claim Austria as part of the German Reich' (see p.335 n.3).