Record Number: 18020
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the numerous volumes of Sodome et Gomorrhe which litter the decks.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 4 Feb 1926
Country:The Red Sea
Timen/a
Place:specific address: on board SS Rajputana
Type of Experience(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:Female
Date of Birth:9 Mar 1892
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Novelist
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:The Red Sea
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sodom et Gonorrhe
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18020
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:Louise de Salvo
Title:The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:107
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Friday 4 February 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, (Great Britain, 1984), p. 107, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18020, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Vita Sackville-West was travelling to Persia to join her husband Harold Nicolson who had been posted to the British Legation in Teheran.