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Record Number: 17767


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparently lost, unless one was "Phyllis and Rosamond", dated June 1906'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1906 and 31 Jul 1906

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Madge Vaughan

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1869

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Virginia Stephen

Title:

short stories

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17767

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Joanne Trautmann Banks

Title:

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1989

Vol:

n/a

Page:

26 n.1

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 26 n.1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17767, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed.'s note accompanies letter of July 1906 to Madge Vaughan in which 24-year-old Virginia Stephen writes, 'I feel rather guilty to have made you write so much and read so much in the midst of everything else. But I am [italics]most grateful[end italics], and that I hope you will believe' (see pp.25-26 in source).

   
   
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