Record Number: 18724
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 18 Dec 1919 and 28 Dec 1919
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:Memoirs
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEd. Henry Reeve, in three series: 1874, 1885, 1887
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18724
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1977
Vol:1
Page:317
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1977), 1, p. 317, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18724, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that Woolf had inherited her parents' copies of text, 'or at least the six volumes of the first two parts'; see p.317 n.6.