Record Number: 27639

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Harold Laski sustained this verdict by writing in "The Forum" on Britain's "prevailing temper of depression" and "widespread fatalism".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1931

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:

Raymond Swing

Title:

Harper's Magazine

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Both texts published 1931 in the United States

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27639

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:

67

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27639, accessed: 16 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional text being read: a feature in "The Forum" by Harold Laski. Vera Brittain cites these texts as examples of how the United States were "sorrier for us than we were for ourselves".