Record Number: 17824
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and liking it. I'm awfully vain I know; and I was on pins and needles about sending it to Jacques; and now I feel exquisitely relieved; not flattered: but one does want that side of one to be acceptable'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1925 and 11 Mar 1925
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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:1885
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Artist
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Mrs Dalloway
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Unknown, In proof copy
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17824
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Joanne Trautmann Banks
Title:Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1989
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Page:194
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 194, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17824, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes, regarding this letter: 'Jacques Raverat's last letter to Virginia was about Mrs Dalloway, which she had sent him in proof. To it Gwen appended a note telling Vrginia about his death, from multiple sclerosis, on 7 March' (see p.193 n.2).
