Evidence: | 'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage out of a tin egg-cup, and reading an impressive poem called "The City of Fear" by a certain Captain Gilbert Frankau, who had not then begun to dissipate his rather exciting talents upon the romances of cigar merchants:' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Dec 1917 and 31 Jan 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: "the early hours" | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Etaples specific address: No. 24 General Hospital 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: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Gilbert Frankau |
Title: | The City of Fear |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 21781 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 399 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 399, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21781, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Vera Brittain goes on to include a long quotation from Frankau's poem. |
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