Evidence: | 'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation page a passage which exactly fitted the theme:' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1919 and 31 Dec 1922 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire |
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Reader: | Winifred Holtby |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1898 |
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: | The Leviathan |
Genre: | Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22717 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Friendship | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 96 | |
Additional comments: | A long quotation from The Leviathan follows. |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship (Great Britain, 1980), p. 96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22717, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Winifred Holtby was undertaking research for a novel she hoped to write based on life in rural Yorkshire. |
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