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.' |
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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 |
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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: | |
Title: | The Times |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | 1917-1918 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21782 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
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". |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)