Record Number: 19969
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to hear it.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 9 Mar 1892 and 2 Oct 1928
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Rouen
specific address: Offranville
(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:novelist
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Vita Sackville-West, Ethel Sands, Nan Hudson, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"memoir of Old Bloomsbury"
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Memoir
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication DetailsPublished in "Moments of Being" ed. Jeanne Schulkind 1976
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:19969
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:Nigel Nicolson
Title:Vita and Harold
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1992
Vol:n/a
Page:204
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated 2 October 1928 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold, (Great Britain, 1992), p. 204, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19969, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The editor notes in a footnote that Virginia had read this memoir to the Memoir Club in 1922. Details about the other people present at this reading experience, and where it took place, appear earlier in the letter.
