Evidence: | 'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped opposite my table and never returned.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Dec 1915 and 31 Dec 1915 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | night | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell location in dwelling: Hospital ward |
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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: | Johan August Strindberg |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21462 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 229 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21462, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Vera Brittain is describing her experience, as a nurse, of being left "all alone in the long dark ward". |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)