| Evidence: | 'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the common reader, a pair of spectacles, a pencil, go in to dinner,' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 29 May 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Weald, Sevenoaks county: Kent specific address: Long Barn |
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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: | Virginia Woolf |
| Title: | The Common Reader |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published 23 April 1925 by the Hogarth Press |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18063 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Louise DeSalvo | |
| Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 138 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 29 May 1926 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 138, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18063, accessed: 19 May 2013 | |
| This is part of a long sentence in which Vita lists and reflects on the ways in which she is spending her time at Long Barn during this period. |
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