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Record Number: 18033


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 13 Apr 1918 and 18 Apr 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Guildford
county: Surrey

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Roger Fry

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

14 Dec 1866

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Artist

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Virginia Woolf


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Marcel Proust

Title:

Du Cote de chez Swann

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1913

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18033

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1977

Vol:

1

Page:

140

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1977), 1, p. 140, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18033, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Text identified by source ed. (see p.140 n.28).

   
   
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