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Record 22041

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a week later another death occurred which seemed, to us who went frequently to the Union Office, far more untimely and incongruous.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Aug 1922 and 31 Aug 1922
Country: England
Time: evening
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: newspaper
Genre: newspaper report
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22041  
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: 557-558
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 557-558, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22041, accessed: 03 May 2024

Additional comments:

Vera Brittain was returning from a League of Nations Union Summer School in Geneva. The other death mentioned was that of a colleague from Somerville College, Oxford, named Elizabeth Murray.

 

 

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