Virginia Woolf in Camden Town - 7 April, 1921
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924, page 107:
Roger is staying with us. I think he has the nicest nature among us - so open, sincere, & entirely without meanness; always generous, I think, & somehow hearty? He throws out a tremendous laugh. We went to the Bedford Music Hall last night, & saw Miss Marie Lloyd, a mass of corruption - long front teeth - a crapulous way of saying 'desire', & yet a born artist - scarcely able to walk, waddling, aged, unblushing. A roar of laughter went up when she talked of her marriage. She is beaten nightly by her husband. I felt the audience was much … more >>
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924 (:London, 1978), p. 107. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444404140489 accessed: 8 October, 2024
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hide composers| Music Hall | performed by Marie Lloyd |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 7 April, 1921 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |