Record Number: 19806
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolates & reading & looking at pictures, including her own portrait, in the Strand Magazine.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:28 Sep 1912
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Venice
specific address: Casa Biondetti
(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:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
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 Strand Magazine
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsMarch 1912
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19806
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:179
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 179, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19806, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes: 'The "portrait," which bore an uncanny resemblance to V[irginia]W[oolf], was in fact a sketch of a fictional character in a story in the March issue' (p.179 n.2).