Record Number: 19688

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic maniac [...] He has however hundreds of books in horrible print & binding -- I found some Diderot among them, which I had not read -- wonderful but quite mad.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1905 and 4 Jun 1905

Country:

Ceylon

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Jaffna (province)

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Colonial civil servant

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Ceylon

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Denis Diderot

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19688

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

92

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19688, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None