Record Number: 18086
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have heard nothing more; so it may be untrue.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:25 Mar 1928
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:25 Jan 1882
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Novelist
Religion:Agnostic
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:The Times
Genre:Ephemera, newspaper
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details25 March 1928
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18086
Source:Virginia Woolf
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:282
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated 31 March 1928 written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West from Orange, France. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska.
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, (Great Britain, 1984), p. 282, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18086, accessed: 12 February 2026
Additional Comments:
The editors have added a footnote stating that the prize mentioned by Virginia was the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. A footnote to a letter dated 14 March, from Vita to Virginia, p.279, gives the date of the Woolfs' departure to France as 26 March. This establishes the date of the reading experience.
