Evidence: | 'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive - for the moment at a standstill - in the Noyon-Montdidier sector of the Western Front, and instantly saw at the head of a column the paragraph for which I had looked so long and so fearfully.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 16 Jun 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London location in dwelling: Dining room other location: Vera Brittain's parents' flat |
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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: | |
Title: | The Observer |
Genre: | Ephemera, newspaper report |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | published 16 June 1918 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21891 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Youth | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 435-436 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 435-436, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21891, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Vera Brittain goes on to quote a paragraph which refers to the violent fighting on the Italian front where her brother Edward was serving with the Sherwood Foresters. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)