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Record Number: 28412


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph": "People went mad in the shelters. ..."

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

From: 1 Jul 1943

Country:

England

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:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

National-Zeitung

Genre:

newspaper reports

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

1943

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28412

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:

325

Additional Comments:

I have not quoted the complete quotations, as quoted by Vera Brittain, from these newspapers.

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 325, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28412, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

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