Record Number: 21457

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to me in quieter days, more potent than life, more permanent than war - I enclosed with my letter the cutting of a recent "Times" leader which had encouraged me to hope for the future resurrection of pre-war literary values.' [In the next sentence Vera Brittain states that the Times leader was called "The Unsubmerged City".]

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1915 and 31 Dec 1915

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Times

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

published 1915

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21457

Source:

Print

Author:

Vera Brittain

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Testament of Youth

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

n/a

Page:

160-161

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, (Great Britain, 1978), p. 160-161, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21457, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain encloses the newspaper cutting in a letter to Roland Leighton, who is away fighting in the First World War.