Record Number: 18075
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled and bewitched. How did you do it? how did you walk along that razor-edge without falling? why did you say anything so silly as that I 'shouldn't like it'?'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 5 May 1927 and 12 May 1927
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Weald, Sevenoaks
county: Kent
specific address: Long Barn
(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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:To the Lighthouse
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished 5 May 1927 by the Hogarth Press
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18075
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:217
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Thursday evening 12 May 1927 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. 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. 217, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18075, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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