| Evidence: | 'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning the faithful to a vital crusade - was due my final acceptance of feminism.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Dec 1908 and 29 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: | Olive Schreiner |
| Title: | Woman and Labour |
| Genre: | Politics, feminism and socialism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21382 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 41 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 41, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21382, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| The age range covers Vera Brittain's age from fifteen to eighteen, as she says earlier in the chapter that she includes this book as one of three works which influenced her between these ages. |
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