| Evidence: | 'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Dec 1906 and 28 Dec 1907 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kingswood county: Surrey specific address: St Monica's School |
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| Listener: | Vera Brittain |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| 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: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21860 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Youth | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 408 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 408, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21860, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
| Vera Brittain was reminded of this reading experience when, during her nursing career in France in 1918, she was spending a day off duty with her friend Hope Milroy. They were lost amongst sandhills near Camiers, within sight of a deserted watchtower. She goes on to quote some lines from the poem. |
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