Evidence: | 'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Apr 1941 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Virginia Woolf |
Title: | The Waves |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Unknown |
Publication details: | 1931 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28354 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Vera Brittain | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Testament of Experience | |
Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 282 | |
Additional comments: | Vera Brittain is quoting from a memorial notice which she had written about Virginia Woolf shortly after her death at the end of March 1941. |
Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 282, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28354, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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