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Record Number: 19826


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which I had already read with great interest. I think we probably agree to the extent of about 95%. Even on the subject of isolation I have always been strongly drawn to the policy under certain conditions. But the conditions do not at present exist and I feel the gravest doubts as to their ever existing.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 30 Sep 1933 and 11 Oct 1933

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer/editor

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:

Frank Hardie

Title:

'Youth, Socialism and Peace'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Week-end Review, 30 September 1933

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19826

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

396

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 396, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19826, accessed: 14 October 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed. explains that text 'advocated general European disarmament or, failing that, British unilateral disarmament and a policy of isolationism' (p.396 n.2).

   
   
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