Record Number: 19051
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our tea table at Hogarth House [...] Would we devote our lives to printing it [at Hogarth Press]? [...] the pages reeled with indecency. I put it in the drawer of the inlaid cabinet. One day Katherine Mansfield came, & I had it out. She began to read, ridiculing: then suddenly said, But theres something in this: a scene that should figure I suppose in the history of literature.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 18 Apr 1918 and 1 Feb 1922
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:14 Oct 1888
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:New Zealand
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ulysses
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Manuscript: Typescript
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:19051
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:5
Page:353
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1984), 5, p. 353, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19051, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
See p.353 n.8 in source for further background details, including dating of Harriet Weaver's visit to Woolf. Ulysses published in Paris by Shakespeare & Co. in February 1922.
