| Evidence: | 'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's Diary" and a short appreciation which I had vainly sent to "The Times". |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | From: 1 Jan 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | "Star Man's Diary" |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | Regular gossip column published in the London "Star". |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28353 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Experience | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 272 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 272, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28353, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Vera Brittain wrote this letter to Clare, who was the sister of her fiance Roland Leighton, killed in the First World War, when she heard about the death of her mother, Marie Connor Leighton. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)