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Record 28350

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence with which Winifred remained "news" when so many writers, once dead, were forgotten.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: From: 27 Jan 1940
Country: America
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Yorkshire Post
Genre: newspaper review
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: 1940
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28350  
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: 240
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 240, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28350, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Vera Brittain received this clipping while she was in America. The newspaper review refers to her recently published book "Testament of Friendship", an account of her friendship with Winifred Holtby.

 

 

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