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Record 21389

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1913 and 31 Dec 1913
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:Vera Brittain
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Eliot
Title: Daniel Deronda
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21389  
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: 98
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21389, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

At the beginning of the First World War Vera Brittain is reflecting on the way that national events were influencing private lives and illustrates this with a quotation from "Daniel Deronda".

 

 

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