Record Number: 19818
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after tea I took him for a walk [...] Then I read Dorothy Osborne until bedtime.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:24 Sep 1928
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Rodmell
county: Sussex
specific address: Monk's House
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Letters
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19818
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:233
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 233, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19818, accessed: 15 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. notes that text had recently been reviewed by Virginia Woolf for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Republic; see p.233 n.6.