Record Number: 19773
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attempt to relate day and night. She [Virginia Woolf] lays her little strands side by side instead of working them into a patern. But perhaps it is because there is no solid structure underneath that it leaves me with this curious empty and dissatisfied feeling. In the last book it is beaten out so thin that it is threadbare.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:22 Jul 1939
Country:England
Timen/anight
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:31 Mar 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:writer
Religion:[lapsed] Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
christened Eirene Botting
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Jacob's Room
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19773
Source:Antonia White
Editor:Susan Chitty
Title:Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:I
Page:164
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957, (London, 1991), I, p. 164, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19773, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
None