Record Number: 18065
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in the door. I read Jesting Pilate and liked it. I have tried Arabia Deserta for the fiftieth time, but can't manage it. Yet no doubt it is a more monumental work than Jesting Pilate.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 9 Mar 1892 and 23 Feb 1927
Country:Persia
Timen/a
Place:city: Teheran
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:9 Mar 1892
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Novelist
Religion:Unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Persia
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Memoirs
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Memoirs
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Details'Arabia Deserta' published 1926
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18065
Source: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:196
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday 23 February 1927 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. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18065, accessed: 13 February 2026
Additional Comments:
'Jesting Pilate' was by George Rylands. 'Arabia Deserta' was by Aldous Huxley, an account of his tour around the world in 1926. This information is supplied in editorial footnotes.
