Record Number: 19165
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well set up, contemptuous & indifferent to the feminine. For example: one man hands the E. Standard, points to a womans photograph. "Women? Let her go home & bowl her hoop" said the man in blue serge with one smashed eye [...] Odd to look into this cool man's world: so weather tight: insurance clerks on top of their work [...] Not a chink through which one can see art, or books. They play cross words when insurance shop fails.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Sep 1939 and 6 Oct 1939
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:other location: On board third class railway carriage
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:Third class railway passengers
Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Evening Standard
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details1939
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19165
Source:Virginia Woolf
Editor:Anne Olivier Bell
Title:The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:5
Page:241
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, (London, 1984), 5, p. 241, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19165, accessed: 18 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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