Record Number: 18164

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

21 Oct 1928

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Weald, Sevenoaks
county: Kent
specific address: Long Barn

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

J.C. Squire

Title:

The Observer

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Book review

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

21 October 1928

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18164

Source:

Print

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:

308

Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from a letter dated Sunday 21 October 1928 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. 308, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18164, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

In a footnote the editors explain that J.C. Squire had called Virginia Woolf's book 'Orlando', published 11 October 1928, 'a pleasant trifle' in his review in the Observer.