Record Number: 19693
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these & wander from about 7-9 every morning & from 4-6 every evening, the rest of the day I read Voltaire's letters, Huysmans & Henry James.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1906 and 13 Jan 1906
Country:Ceylon
Timen/a
Place:city: Bandarawela
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:Colonial civil servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ceylon
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19693
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:110-111; 111
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 110-111; 111, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19693, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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