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Vera Brittain and her fellow students : History of England

'Whenever we felt too tired even to manufacture the ribald witticisms of the Going-Down play, we took it in turns to read Professor A. F. Pollard's ironic "History of England" or Lytton Strachey's newly published "Queen Victoria" aloud to each other, while the sun sank splendidly behind the willows.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain and her fellow students     Print: Book, Unknown

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