Speaking at the centenary dinner of the Booksellers’ Provident Association, Vera Brittain said she had never been made to feel that she was a woman author. She had just felt that she was an author, and she did not think any one could say that in any other profession.
Mr Robert Lynd says that he sometimes thinks it would be a good thing if the universities would appoint a board of historical ex? perts for the periodical revision of reputations. He is sure, that if such a board were set up, its meetings held in public and its proceedings fully reported, biographers would be saved from many of their blunders.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 17
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