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Record 21743

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty literature as I had collected from home - Thomas Hardy's poems, John Masefield's "Gallipoli", numerous copies of "Blackwood's Magazine", and the recently published Report of the Commission on the Dardanelles.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1917
Country: Malta
Time: night
Place: specific address: St George's Hospital
   
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: Malta
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Masefield
Title: Gallipoli
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical, magazines
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21743  
Source - Print  
  Author: Vera Brittain
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Testimony of Youth
  Place of Publication: Great Britain
  Date of Publication: 1978
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 333
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testimony of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 333, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21743, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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