Record Number: 18240
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a classic, I am curbed & -- not castrated; no, the opposite; I cant think of the word at the moment. 'Had I been writing P[assenger] to T[eheran] I should have run off whole pools of this coloured water; & then (I think) found my own method of attack [...] Were I writing travels I should wait till some angle emerged: & go for that. The method of writing smooth narrative cant be right; things dont happen in one's mind like that. But she is very skilful & golden voiced.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Feb 1927 and 12 Feb 1927
Country:England
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Place:n/a
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:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Agnostic
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:Passenger to Teheran
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsHogarth Press, 1926
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18240
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:126-127
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1980), 3, p. 126-127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18240, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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