| Evidence: | 'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax:
"Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, significant, important - for me it is oppressive also - to it I am an outsider, intruding, shamefaced, feeling very unworthy, painfully unworthy to the verge of tears." |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1932 and 31 Dec 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | America | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Catlin |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | political philosopher |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | America |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Vera Brittain |
| Title: | Testament of Youth |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1933 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27769 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Experience | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 91 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 91, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27769, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Vera Brittain refers to her husband, George Catlin, as "G." throughout the book. She was lecturing in Halifax, Yorkshire when she received this letter from him. |
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