Record Number: 17918
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1940 and 13 Aug 1940
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Chatham
county: Kent
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1914
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Lance-bombadier, anti-aircraft battery
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Roger Fry
Genre:Biography, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1940
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17918
Source: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:431
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 431, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17918, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Nicolson the son of Woolf's former lover Vita Sackville-West.