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Record Number: 22045


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" - which, it said, there was no necessity to acknowledge.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1923 and 31 Aug 1923

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

university lecturer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Vera Brittain

Title:

The Dark Tide

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

published 1923

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

22045

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:

607

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 607, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22045, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

"The enclosed" was "a short monograph on one of the seventeenth-century philosophers".

   
   
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