Record Number: 18387
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 19 May 1933 and 21 May 1933
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Draguignan
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:Male
Date of Birth:1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Jewish
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Golden Bough
Genre:Other religious, Classics, History, Astrology / alchemy / occult
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAbridged in one volume, 1929.
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18387
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1982
Vol:4
Page:159
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1982), 4, p. 159, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18387, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes: 'L[eonard] W[oolf] had an abridged one-volume edition (1929) of J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 12 volumes 1890-1915' (p.159 n.6).