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Vera Brittain
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'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Newspaper
Johan August Strindberg : unknown
'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped opposite my table and never returned.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Unknown
Robert Hugh Benson : Vexilla Regis
'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admired and read together. "The Story of an African Farm" was there and "The Poems of Paul Verlaine", as well as "The Garden of Kama" and "Pecheur d'Islande". To these I added Robert Hugh Benson's Prayer Book, "Vexilla Regis", not only in honour of Roland's Catholicism, but because my mother had sent me some lines, which I frequently read and cried over, from Benson's "Prayer after a Crushing Bereavement":'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book
: newspaper
'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing accounts of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, and Townshend's surrender at Kut, and the first stages of Roger Casement's progress towards his execution in August, there was still more than enough opportunity for thoughts about the past.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Newspaper
: the 'Star' newspaper
'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Newspaper
: newspaper
'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from England.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Newspaper
: Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John
'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John" the following words - a little pompous, perhaps, like the report itself, but doubtless written with the laudable intention of reassuring the anxious nursing profession: "The V.A.D. members were not ... trained nurses; nor were they entrusted with trained nurses' work except on occasions when the emergency was so great that no other course was open."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: official report
E.A. Mackintosh : Cha Till Maccruimein
'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein," in his volume of poems "A Highland Regiment", which Roland's mother and sister had sent me for Christmas:'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book
Hugh Walpole : The Dark Forest
'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was happy ... with a strange exultation that was unlike any emotion that I had known before. It was ... something of the happiness of danger or pain that one has dreaded and finds, in actual truth, give way before one's resolution."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book
Owen Seaman : The Soul of a Nation
'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our old strongholds had fallen and the camp at Etaples had been a struggling pandemonium of ambulances, stretchers and refugee nurses:'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Serial / periodical, magazine
George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah
'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published "Back to Methuselah", but otherwise had plenty of time for reminiscent meditation - I realised that the past two years at Oxford were going to take a good deal of getting over; they had meant an effort so great that I had not calculated its cost until it was finished.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Unknown
unknown : The Evolution of World Peace
'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of the cause's momentous dignity...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Unknown
Winifred Holtby : Good Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Health"
'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to live for more than two years.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Serial / periodical
: Punch
'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnificent," and never dreamed that sentence of death was being passed upon her behind the closed door.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Serial / periodical
Winifred Holtby : Virginia Woolf
'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'
