| Evidence: | 'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem associated in her mind with war-time loss and all premature death - and opened the notebook which contained her copies of Bill's verses.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1918 and 1922 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: 'late evening' | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Somerville College location in dwelling: 'our rooms' |
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| Reader: | Winifred Holtby |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1898 |
| 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) |
Vera Brittain |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Title: | Super Flumina Babylonis |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 22715 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Friendship | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 54-55 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship (Great Britain, 1980), p. 54-55, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22715, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Bill was a young soldier who Winifred fell in love with in 1914 when she was sixteen. |
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