Record Number: 27639
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Harold Laski sustained this verdict by writing in "The Forum" on Britain's "prevailing temper of depression" and "widespread fatalism".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1931
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
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:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Harper's Magazine
Genre:Politics
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsBoth texts published 1931 in the United States
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27639
Source:Vera Brittain
Editor:n/a
Title:Testament of Experience
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:n/a
Page:67
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27639, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Additional text being read: a feature in "The Forum" by Harold Laski. Vera Brittain cites these texts as examples of how the United States were "sorrier for us than we were for ourselves".