Record Number: 21863
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was happy ... with a strange exultation that was unlike any emotion that I had known before. It was ... something of the happiness of danger or pain that one has dreaded and finds, in actual truth, give way before one's resolution."'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1918 and 11 Apr 1918
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Etaples
specific address: No. 24 General Hospital
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Dark Forest
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21863
Source:Vera Brittain
Editor:n/a
Title:Testament of Youth
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1978
Vol:n/a
Page:418
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 418, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21863, accessed: 28 March 2024
Additional Comments:
Vera Brittain is referring to a raid which took place very close to the hospital where she worked as a nurse.