Record Number: 18223

---

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1925 and 21 Dec 1925

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:

Virginia Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

25 Jan 1882

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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:

Vita Sackville-West

Title:

On the Lake

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

1925

Provenance

unknown

---

Source Information:

Record ID:

18223

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

3

Page:

52

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1980), 3, p. 52, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18223, accessed: 18 April 2024

---

Additional Comments:

Source ed. suggests Sackville-West's 'On the Lake,' which appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum, 26 December 1925, as text read; see p.52 n.12.