Virginia Woolf in London - 6 May, 1919
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, page 270:
Yesterday, Tuesday, we both renewed London life in the usual way, save that I had to buy stuff for dresses, as well as paper labels & glue. Tea at the Club, where Alix, dusky and dreary, borrowed 10/- in order to give James his dinner. They were going to hear Bertie lecture; I preferred the songsters of Trafalgar Square. The steps of the column were built up, pyramid fashion, with elderly respectable householders grasping sheets of music, which they rendered, in time to a conductor on a chair beneath, with great precision. It was Life boat day, & the elderly people… more >>
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, volume 1 (Harmondsworth, 1979), p. 270. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444133690120 accessed: 24 November, 2024
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hide composers| Folk songs | |
| Sea shanties |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 6 May, 1919 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |