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Record 21955

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and difficult period, I wonder, or has some incisive and lucid writer at last let in light on its tangled obscurity?'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 29 Dec 1893 and 29 Mar 1970
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire
   
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Vinagradoff
Title: The Growth of the Manor
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Book, Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21955  
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: 514
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Great Britain, 1978), p. 514, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21955, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

The additional text mentioned is "Scutage" by JH Round. Vera Brittain had read these titles as part of her studies in early English history, a subject which "had always bored me to the limit of impatience".

 

 

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