Record Number: 18085
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague fingers push That feathered glory from her loosening thighs?'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 9 Mar 1892 and 29 Feb 1928
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:other location: On a train to Berlin
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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Leda and the Swan
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18085
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:273
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday 29 February 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf from 24 Brucken-allee, Berlin NW23. 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. 273, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18085, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Vita had travelled to Berlin to join her husband.