Record Number: 19824
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficulty is that that is precisely what it does do, and now I cannot write a sentence, because as soon as I get one down, I see that it is exactly like some horror of Miss [Marie] Corelli [popular novelist]'s quoted as a warning in that damned book.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Sep 1918 and 22 Sep 1918
Country:England
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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:Male
Date of Birth:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
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:extracts from novels
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsExtracted in H. W. and F. G. Fowler, The King's English
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:19824
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:278
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 278, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19824, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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