Record Number: 17999
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She read Ben Jonson's masques. They are short, & in between she broke off to talk a little [...] I enjoyed it [...] She read us a poem called The Old Way, of a swashing, patriotic kind, & exclaimed how fine it was, & how, as long as we had Hopwood for a poet we needn't complain.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:15 Jan 1918
Country:England
Timeafternoon
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:1840
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:none
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'The Old Way'
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17999
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1977
Vol:1
Page:106-107; 107
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1977), 1, p. 106-107; 107, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17999, accessed: 04 February 2026
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that text first appeared in The Times on 16 September 1916, and was reprinted the same year in The Old way and Other Poems (see p.107 n.28).
