| Evidence: | 'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped opposite my table and never returned.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1915 and 31 Dec 1915 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | night | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell location in dwelling: Hospital ward |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| 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: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Johan August Strindberg |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21462 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 229 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21462, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Vera Brittain is describing her experience, as a nurse, of being left "all alone in the long dark ward". |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)