Record Number: 3687

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

22 Feb 1904

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
location in dwelling: Hyde Park Gate

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:

Leslie Stephen

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Nov 1832

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Historian, literary critic, biographer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Hardy

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1904

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3687

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Nigel Nicolson

Title:

The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

n/a

Page:

134

Additional Comments:

Letter from Virginia Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (13/3/1904), describing her father's last hours.

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912, (London, 1983), p. 134, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3687, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None