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Record 27640

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise that the diagnosis then given her amounted to a verdict of early death, which she understood and accepted.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Until: 31 Dec 1936
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
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: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Winifred Holtby
Title: South Riding
Genre: Fiction, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1936
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27640  
Source - Print  
  Author: Vera Brittain
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Testament of Experience
  Place of Publication: Great Britain
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 72
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 72, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27640, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Vera Brittain refers to Winifred Holtby's visit to a doctor in Harley Street in 1932, when she accompanied her. Vera stayed in the waiting room during the consultation.

 

 

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