Record Number: 18051
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow under my quilt, and the night noises outside, which are so familiar in one's own room; and the house was all quiet.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:30 Nov 1926
Country:England
Timen/anight
Place:city: Weald, Sevenoaks
county: Kent
specific address: Long Barn
location in dwelling: Bedroom
(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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Mrs Dalloway
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished by the Hogarth Press 14 May 1925
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18051
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:165
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday [1 December] 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. 165, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18051, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
None