Evidence: | 'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid.
"'The Queen is now asleep,'" she quoted in sepulchral tones, while I, absorbed with my crayons, reamined busily unaware that so much more than a reign was ending, and that the long age of effulgent prosperity into which I had been born was to break up in thirteen years' time with an explosion which would reverberate through my personal life to the end of my days.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 21 Jan 1901 and 31 Jan 1901 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon: 'a grey January afternoon' | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Macclesfield county: Cheshire location in dwelling: kitchen |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon [a cook] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Servant |
Occupation: | cook |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
The housemaid and Vera Brittain |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | evening paper |
Genre: | Politics, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | January 1901 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20889 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 22 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20889, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
The cook is reading a newspaper report about the death of Queen Victoria. |
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