Evidence: | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named the Prime Minister of the day..." The history and geography he was taught at school were never related to contemporary events. Remarkably, Scannell had read widely about the last war: the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden's "Undertones of War", and Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That". The Penguin edition of "A Farewell to Arms" so overwhelmed him that he tried to write his own Great War novel in a Hemingway style. But none of this translated into any awareness that another war might be on the way'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reading Group: | Vernon Scannell's family |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | 1922 |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | n/a |
Title: | [newspapers] |
Genre: | Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 4935 | |
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Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 362-3 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 362-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4935, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Vernon Scannell, 'Drums of Morning' (1992), pp. 36-7 |
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