Record Number: 18076
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 5 May 1927 and 1 Jun 1927
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:Male
Date of Birth:13 Mar 1884
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Novelist
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:To the Lighthouse
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPublished 5 May 1927 by the Hogarth Press
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18076
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:Louise DeSalvo
Title:The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:225
Additional Comments:
Comments made by Hugh Walpole to Vita Sackville-West and quoted by her in a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 1 June 1927. Vita introduces the quotation as 'compliments' from 'my poor despised friend Hugh'. He is identified as Hugh Walpole in an editorial footnote. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, (Great Britain, 1984), p. 225, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18076, accessed: 24 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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