Record Number: 18272
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpidly through book after book: Defoe's Tour; Rowan's auto[biograph]y; Benson's Memoirs; Jeans; in the familiar way [...] Oh & I've read Q[ueen]. V[ictoria]'s letters [...] Q.V. entirely unaesthetic; a kind of Prussian competence, & belief in herself her only prominences [...] Knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 23 Dec 1930 and 27 Dec 1930
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Science
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1930
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18272
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:340-341; 340
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1980), 3, p. 340-341; 340, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18272, accessed: 24 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that text read either Jeans's The Mysterious Universe, or his The Universe Around Us; see p.340 n.17.
