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Record Number: 27609


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days later I agreed to write the notice, and subsequently reviewed a number of well-known books which included Storm Jameson's autobiographical "No Time Like the Present".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1930

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Storm Jameson

Title:

No Time Like the Present

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1933

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

27609

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:

65

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27609, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain had been asked by the editor of "The Week-end Review" to write a criticism of Sylvia Pankhurst's "The Suffragette Movement". This was the title about which she hesitated and then agreed to write the notice.

   
   
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