Virginia Woolf in London - 25 February, 1919
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, pages 244-245:
The truth is I shirk the gigantic task of giving an account of Sunday's teaparty, at which I met Sir Val. Chirrol, Sir Henry Newbolt & Lady, Lady Cromer, the Bruce Richmonds, & a scattering of gallant bald cavalry officers, & mounds of South Kensington dowager respectability who must be nameless...The company was decorous and fur-bearing as usual; & the music like the voice of spirits in another world enticing the hopelessly damned. Sir Henry wrote a patriotic song to the tune of it. But how nice they are too!
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, volume 1 (Harmondsworth, 1979), p. 244-245. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444132791871 accessed: 13 September, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | 25 February, 1919 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |