Evidence: | 'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Secolo" carried an account of my arrival. I also read a description of my fellow train-traveller, Eve Curie, a handsome woman in her thirties whose biography of her mother had been a recent best seller.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 5 Jan 1940 and 10 Jan 1940 | ||||||||||
Country: | Portugal | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Lisbon | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Portugal |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Il Secolo |
Genre: | current affairs |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | 1940 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28286 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Experience | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 231 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 231, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28286, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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