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Record 20890

Reading Experience:

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".
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 29 Dec 1893 and 29 Mar 1970
Country: England
Time: afternoon: 'Sunday afternoons'
Place: city: Macclesfield
county: Cheshire
   
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:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charles Dickens
Title: David Copperfield
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20890  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

 

 

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