Record Number: 18245
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard; makes me feel I have no right to go on; as if my life was at the expense of his. And I had not been kind; not asked him to dinner & so on.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 13 Sep 1927 and 20 Sep 1927
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Rodmell
county: Sussex
(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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsIn the Morning Post (after 13 September 1927)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18245
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:156
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1980), 3, p. 156, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18245, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Philip Ritchie, a friend of Lytton Strachey's, died aged 28 followsing a tonsillectomy on 13 September 1927; see p.10 n.10 and p.156 n.7 in source for further background. Source ed. also notes, at p.156 n.7: 'Despite L[eonard] W[oolf]'s scorn, V[irginia] W[oolf] used to take the arch-Conservative Morning Post during the summer months at Rodmell.'
