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Record Number: 20891


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 29 Dec 1906 and 31 Dec 1912

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Kingswood
county: Surrey
specific address: St Monica's School

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:

Child (0-17)

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

newspapers

Genre:

Ephemera, Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20891

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:

39

Additional Comments:

Vera adds in the next sentence that as a pupil at St Monica's School she was only allowed to read "carefully selected cuttings" usually from "The Times" or the "Observer".

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20891, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain went to St Monica's when she was thirteen and refers in this quotation to her teacher, Miss Heath-Jones.

   
   
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