| Evidence: | [Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear]
'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine years earlier had prophesied in a famous book, "La Trahison des Clercs", that mankind was heading for the greatest war which the world had ever experienced.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | From: 1 Jan 1927 | ||||||||||
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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: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Julien Benda |
| Title: | La Trahison des Clercs |
| Genre: | Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1927 or 1928 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28096 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Experience | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 176 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 176, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28096, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| "These writers" were a group of authors under the title of "Left Review" who sent a question on the Spanish Civil War to a larger group of British writers and poets. |
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