Evidence: | 'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and a tiny crescent of moon, glimpsed through a skylight in the roof, scudded in and out of the flying clouds, I first read Shelley's "Adonais", which taught me in the most startling and impressive fashion of my childhood's experience to perceive beauty embodied in literature, and made me finally determine to become the writer that I had dreamed of being ever since I was seven years old.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 29 Dec 1906 and 31 Dec 1912 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Kingswood county: Surrey specific address: St Monica's School location in dwelling: Gymnasium |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Title: | Adonais |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20892 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 40 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20892, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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