Record Number: 19656
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901: 'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over an immense fire with a wind roaring round the house [...] I have been sharing my chair with my dog & reading the Book of Job again & now I feel quite sunk in the drowsy dreaminess of brain-weariness [...] ever so many thanks for the book which is a perfection of delight to me. If there is one thing which spoils one's pleasure in reading Job & Ecclesiastes it is the horror of those two barbarous columns in the ordinary barbarously bound bible -- & I have always prayed for a relief from those awful double columns, which are the hall-mark of religious respectability.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:20 Mar 1901
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Putney
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:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Undergraduate student
Religion:Jewish
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:The Book of Job
Genre:Bible
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:19656
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:13
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 13, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19656, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Copy of text ('a handsome edition') given to Woolf by Strachey, who had bought it on previous day; see p.13 n.2 in source.
