| Evidence: | 'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excellent Cruickshank-ish book called Murder for Profit.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 25 Dec 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Knole county: Kent location in dwelling: Bedroom |
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| Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Benjamin Robert Haydon |
| Title: | Autobiography |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published 1847 (editor's footnote) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18053 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Louise de Salvo | |
| Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 172 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Christmas-day [25 December 1926] written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Vita says earlier in the letter that she is spending Christmas in bed with influenza. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise de Salvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 172, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18053, accessed: 18 June 2013 | |
| 'Murder for Profit' is described in a footnote as 'A famous detective story by W. Bolitho (1926). |
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