| Evidence: | 'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan documents: "The Queen of Scots is the mother of a gallant son, but I am a barren stock."' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1920 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire |
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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: | Thomas Hobbes |
| Title: | Leviathan |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21950 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 499 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 499, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21950, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| The additional text mentioned is John Stuart Mill's essay "Liberty". Vera Brittain's study of Tudor and Stuart history at Oxford explains her Elizabethan quotation. |
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