Record Number: 19828
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce after his retirement and when he lived in Granada; hearing that Virginia and I were going to stay in the mountains above, he asked us to come and spend the night at his house. I had a long talk with him and he was very bitter against [Lord] Lugard [imperialist attacked by Woolf in text], claiming that a great deal of the credit for indirect rule etc., whicb Lugard claimed himself, ought to have gone to him, Temple.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jul 1920 and 30 Apr 1923
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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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Colonial civil servant (retired)
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Empire and Commerce in Africa
Genre:Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1920
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Source Information:
Record ID:19828
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Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
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Page:439-440
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 439-440, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19828, accessed: 07 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Perham, a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, at work on a biography of Lugard; see p.439 n.2 in source. Leonard and Virginia Woolf travelled in Spain during spring 1923.
