Record Number: 18064
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - '
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 9 Mar 1892 and 2 Feb 1927
Country:Russia
Timen/a
Place:specific address: Rostov-on-Don
other location: on board a train
(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:Russia
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18064
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:Louise DeSalvo
Title:The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:184
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday 2 February 1927 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. An editorial footnote explains that Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' was set in the Hebrides. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, (Great Britain, 1984), p. 184, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18064, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
This is part of a long sentence in which Vita describes her long train journey across 'snow-bound steppes'. She was travelling to Persia to join her husband.
