| Evidence: | 'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Dec 1906 and 31 Dec 1912 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kingswood county: Surrey specific address: St Monica's School |
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| Reader: | 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | newspapers |
| Genre: | Ephemera, Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20891 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 39 | |
| Additional comments: | Vera adds in the next sentence that as a pupil at St Monica's School she was only allowed to read "carefully selected cuttings" usually from "The Times" or the "Observer". |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20891, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Vera Brittain went to St Monica's when she was thirteen and refers in this quotation to her teacher, Miss Heath-Jones. |
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