Evidence: | 'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admired and read together. "The Story of an African Farm" was there and "The Poems of Paul Verlaine", as well as "The Garden of Kama" and "Pecheur d'Islande". To these I added Robert Hugh Benson's Prayer Book, "Vexilla Regis", not only in honour of Roland's Catholicism, but because my mother had sent me some lines, which I frequently read and cried over, from Benson's "Prayer after a Crushing Bereavement":' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1916 and 31 Dec 1916 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell location in dwelling: Nurses' accommodation at the hospital |
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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: | Robert Hugh Benson |
Title: | Vexilla Regis |
Genre: | Other religious, prayer book |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21463 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 248 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 248, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21463, accessed: 03 May 2024 |
Vera refers in this quotation to Roland Leighton, her fiance, who had recently been killed in the First World War. |
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