Record Number: 18032
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll have to explain verbally some day. Unless you can guess. How well you write, though, confound you. When I read you, I feel no one has ever written English prose before, - Knocked it about, put it in its place, made it into a servant.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:17 Jun 1926
Country:England
Timen/a
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:9 Mar 1892
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Novelist
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18032
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:Louise de Salvo
Title:The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:144
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated 17 June 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. 'How well you write' is printed in italics. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, (Great Britain, 1984), p. 144, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18032, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
As Vita Sackville-West was referring to Virginia Woolf's works in general it is not possible to specify a single place of experience. However the letter from which the quotation comes was written at Vita's home: Long Barn, Weald, Sevenoaks.
