Record Number: 18231
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she thought "very clever". But Hardy could not remember it.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 May 1926 and 23 Jul 1926
Country:England
Timen/a
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:
Reading Group: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer and wife
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Two or Three Graces
Genre:Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsMay 1926
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18231
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:101
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1980), 3, p. 101, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18231, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Florence Hardy likely to have read text aloud; Woolf notes in same diary entry: '[Hardy] Said his wife had to read to him -- his eyes were now so bad' (Thomas Hardy born 1840).