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Record Number: 19680


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees & masses of wonderful creepers [...] I have been reading the Times Literary Supplement'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

28 Dec 1904

Country:

Ceylon

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Colombo
specific address: The Grand Oriental Hotel
location in dwelling: hotel garden

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Colonial civil servant

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Ceylon

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Times Literary Supplement

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19680

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

69

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 69, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19680, accessed: 28 September 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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