Evidence: | 'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1900 and 30 Apr 1945 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Hobbes |
Title: | Leviathan |
Genre: | Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1651 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28456 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Experience | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 358 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 358, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28456, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Vera Brittain goes on to quote from this book. |
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