Record Number: 18632

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1935 and 13 Sep 1935

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

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:

Sir Charles Mallett

Title:

Anthony Hope and His Books

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1935

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18632

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:

341

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1982), 4, p. 341, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18632, accessed: 14 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

In diary entry for 15 September 1935 Woolf comments, regarding this text: 'A queer book, Hope's life -- so neat, discreet, & somehow dated' (p.341 in source).