Record Number: 18808

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] last Tuesday, that is; [he] read us his L[eslie]. S[tephen]. lecture, a rather laboured but honest but perfunctory lecture: after which he & I sitting in the twilight with the door open, L[eonard]. [Woolf] coming in & out, discussed his shyness: he says he thinks it made him uncreative.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 May 1937

Country:

England

Time

evening

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:

Desmond MacCarthy

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1877

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Senior Literary Critic, Sunday Times

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Virginia and Leonard Woolf

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Desmond MacCarthy

Title:

lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18808

Source:

Print

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Editor:

Anne Olivier Bell

Title:

The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

5

Page:

91

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1984), 5, p. 91, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18808, accessed: 14 January 2025

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Additional Comments:

None