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Record 27070

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to comment regretfully: "Many of us seem almost hopelessly enamoured of a religion that is little better than a sanctified commercialism....Self-interest bulks large as the fuel which makes the present economic machine go."'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Sep 1925 and 31 Oct 1925
Country: America
Time: n/a
Place: city: Ithaca
county: New York State
   
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: America
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Harper's Magazine
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1925
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27070  
Source - Print  
  Author: Vera Brittain
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Testament of Experience
  Place of Publication: Great Britain
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 30
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27070, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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