Record Number: 21389

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1913 and 31 Dec 1913

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

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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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Eliot

Title:

Daniel Deronda

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21389

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:

98

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21389, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

At the beginning of the First World War Vera Brittain is reflecting on the way that national events were influencing private lives and illustrates this with a quotation from "Daniel Deronda".