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Record Number: 18190


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 26 Mar 1915 and 15 Sep 1920

Country:

England

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:

Lytton Strachey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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:

Virginia Woolf

Title:

The Voyage Out

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

26 March 1915

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18190

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of VIrginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

2

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of VIrginia Woolf, (London, 1978), 2, p. 65, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18190, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Diary entry describes house party at Eleanor Farm, near West Wittering, home of St John Hutchinson.

   
   
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