Record Number: 27769

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, significant, important - for me it is oppressive also - to it I am an outsider, intruding, shamefaced, feeling very unworthy, painfully unworthy to the verge of tears."

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1932 and 31 Dec 1932

Country:

America

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

George Catlin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

political philosopher

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

America

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Vera Brittain

Title:

Testament of Youth

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1933

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27769

Source:

Print

Author:

Vera Brittain

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Testament of Experience

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

n/a

Page:

91

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, (Great Britain, 1980), p. 91, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27769, accessed: 16 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain refers to her husband, George Catlin, as "G." throughout the book. She was lecturing in Halifax, Yorkshire when she received this letter from him.