Virginia Woolf - 10 December, 1918

from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, page 226:

Sunday was memorable for me for another visit to Shelley House - where I actually shook hands with Miss Sands, Katie, & Elena Rathbone.  All expressed great surprise at seeing me, as if I were a strange bird joining a flock of the same species. I felt strange enough; but oddly familiar with their ways after the first.  Elena was almost like an old friend - a very old friend who persists, remembering what went on before I took my dive & she hers.  She pressed me, almost affectionately, to come & see them....Katie rather ensanguined & flesh covered, but with …   more >>

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Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, volume 1 (Harmondsworth, 1979), p. 226. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444132418149 accessed: 18 April, 2024

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Virginia Woolf
Writer
1882-1941

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Classical music
written by Maurice Ravel, Robert Schumann

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Date/Time 10 December, 1918
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by Jo Reardon on Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:53:38 +0100
Approved on Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:50:36 +0000