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Record 21782

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly "Times", the "Spectator" and "Blackwood's", so that my impression of the winter's most significant events - the Bolshevik November coup d'etat two months after the proclamation of the Russian Republic, and the final act at Brest Litovsk on March 2nd, 1918, following the complete collapse of the Russian armies - was inevitably onesided.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Dec 1917 and 31 Dec 1918
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Etaples
specific address: No. 24 General Hospital
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The Times
Genre: Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: 1917-1918
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21782  
Source - Print  
  Author: Vera Brittain
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Testament of Youth
  Place of Publication: Great Britain
  Date of Publication: 1978
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 400
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 400, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21782, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Vera Brittain read these publications while on duty as a nurse in the hospital. She says that she "gave up - except for occasional poetry - the attempt to read anything more exacting than magazines".

 

 

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