Record Number: 18343

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large leafy silent Georgian refined: so too no. 41 [...] Talk about Auden & Naomi Mitchison: her review of Auden read aloud'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1 Jun 1932

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: London
specific address: 41 Edwardes Square

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:

Listener:

Virginia Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

25 Jan 1882

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

agnostic

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:

Naomi Mitchison

Title:

Review of W. H. Auden, The Orators

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Weekend Review, 29 May 1932

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18343

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1982

Vol:

4

Page:

105

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1982), 4, p. 105, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18343, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None