Record Number: 17805
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which has made me plan to read all Greek straight through [...] I found great consolation during the influenza in the works of Leonard Merrick, a poor unappreciated second-rate pot-boiling writer of stories about the stage, whom I deduce to be a negro, mulatto, or quadroon; at any rate he has a grudge against the world, and might have done much better if he hadn't at the age of 20 married a chorus girl, had by her 15 coffee coloured brats and lived for the rest of the time in a villa in Brixton, where he ekes out his living by giving lessons in elocution to the natives'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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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:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Fiction, Arts / architecture, theatre
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:17805
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Joanne Trautmann Banks
Title:Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1989
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Page:97-98
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Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1989), p. 97-98, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17805, accessed: 09 May 2025
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