Record Number: 28096

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine years earlier had prophesied in a famous book, "La Trahison des Clercs", that mankind was heading for the greatest war which the world had ever experienced.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1927

Country:

n/a

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:

Vera Brittain

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Dec 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Julien Benda

Title:

La Trahison des Clercs

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1927 or 1928

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28096

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:

176

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, (Great Britain, 1980), p. 176, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28096, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

"These writers" were a group of authors under the title of "Left Review" who sent a question on the Spanish Civil War to a larger group of British writers and poets.