Record Number: 18394
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Aug 1933 and 12 Aug 1933
Country:England
Timen/a
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:A Character Study of the Oxford Movement
Genre:Other religious, History, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1933
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18394
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1982
Vol:4
Page:172
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1982), 4, p. 172, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18394, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Woolf refers to accounts of John Henry Newman's breakdowns in 1820 and 1827 in Cust, pp. 59f adn 177f (see p.172 n.2 in source).