Record Number: 19019
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:3 Jan 1940
Country:unknown
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:Writer
Religion:agnostic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Autobiography
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1873
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:19019
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:5
Page:255
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1984), 5, p. 255, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19019, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Text read in first edition that had belonged to Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen; source ed. notes that the quotation copied into notebook labelled The Albatross/Letters &/Memoir was: 'This lesson of keeping my thoughts to myself, at that early age, was attended with some disadvantage.'