Record Number: 19792
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah. It is extraordinary; it might be the Northern Province in 1907 instead of Bengal in the sixties.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:28 Apr 1907
Country:Ceylon
Timen/a
Place:county: Jaffna (province)
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
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Competition Wallah
Genre:Geography / Travel, Politics, ?fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1868
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19792
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:127
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19792, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. explains at p.127 n.2 that 'The term competition wallah is an Anglo-Indian colloquialism referring to persons admitted to the Indian Civil Service by competitive examination rather than through family or political connections.'