Record Number: 21463
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'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
Date:Between 1 Jan 1916 and 31 Dec 1916
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell
location in dwelling: Nurses' accommodation at the hospital
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Vexilla Regis
Genre:Other religious, prayer book
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21463
Source:Vera Brittain
Editor:n/a
Title:Testament of Youth
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1978
Vol:n/a
Page:248
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, (Great Britain, 1978), p. 248, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21463, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Vera refers in this quotation to Roland Leighton, her fiance, who had recently been killed in the First World War.
