Record Number: 21743

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty literature as I had collected from home - Thomas Hardy's poems, John Masefield's "Gallipoli", numerous copies of "Blackwood's Magazine", and the recently published Report of the Commission on the Dardanelles.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1917

Country:

Malta

Time

n/anight

Place:

specific address: St George's Hospital

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:

Malta

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Masefield

Title:

Gallipoli

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, magazines

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

21743

Source:

Print

Author:

Vera Brittain

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Testimony of Youth

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

n/a

Page:

333

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testimony of Youth, (Great Britain, 1978), p. 333, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21743, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None