Record Number: 21950

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan documents: "The Queen of Scots is the mother of a gallant son, but I am a barren stock."'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1920

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:

Thomas Hobbes

Title:

Leviathan

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21950

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:

499

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, (Great Britain, 1978), p. 499, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21950, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

The additional text mentioned is John Stuart Mill's essay "Liberty". Vera Brittain's study of Tudor and Stuart history at Oxford explains her Elizabethan quotation.