Evidence: | 'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that was already beginning to be labelled "pre-war". |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1915 and 31 Dec 1915 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Somerville College location in dwelling: Vera Brittain's bedroom |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 21396 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britian | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 152-153 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britian, 1978), p. 152-153, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21396, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
This reading experience takes place after a game of tennis. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)