| Evidence: | 'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then only just beginning to take the world's breath away, and I asked our tutor if she would read us one or two.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1915 and 31 Dec 1915 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: 'One chilly May evening' | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Micklem Hall, Brewer Street location in dwelling: Vera Brittain's tutor's room |
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| Listener: | 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) |
Vera Brittain and her college friend Marjorie were listening to their tutor. |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Rupert Brooke |
| Title: | 1914 |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | published 1915 |
| Provenance: | read in situ owned by Vera Brittain's tutor |
| Record ID: | 21397 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britian | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 155 | |
| Additional comments: | Vera Brittain refers to the newly published first edition of Rupert Brooke's collection of sonnets, '1914'. |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britian, 1978), p. 155, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21397, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Vera says in the next paragraph that "I found the experience so moving that I should not have sought it had I realised how hard composure would be to maintain." |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)