Evidence: | 'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to us on Sunday afternoons. We ploughed through "David Copperfield" and "Nicholas Nickleby" in this manner, which perhaps explains why I have never been able to finish anything else by Dickens except "A Tale of Two Cities". |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 29 Dec 1893 and 29 Mar 1970 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon: 'Sunday afternoons' | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Macclesfield county: Cheshire |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | Vera Brittain |
Age | Child (0-17) |
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, workmates) |
Vera Brittain's brother Edward |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | David Copperfield |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20890 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 27 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20890, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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