Record Number: 21381

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces, it might have influenced me less, but I remained ignorant until some years later of Mrs. Ward's political machinations, and her book converted me from an unquestioning if somewhat indifferent church-goer into an anxiously interrogative agnostic.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 29 Dec 1908 and 29 Dec 1912

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Kingswood
county: Surrey
specific address: St Monica's School

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vera Brittain

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Dec 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Ward

Title:

Robert Elsmere

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21381

Source:

Print

Author:

Vera Brittain

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Testament of Youth

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

n/a

Page:

41

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 41, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21381, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain refers to Mary Ward as Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the name she wrote under. The age range covers her age from fifteen to eighteen as she says earlier in the chapter that she includes this book as one of three works which influenced her between these ages.