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Record 6031

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" past customs. In "John O'London's" and "The Nation", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on "Psychology" and F.A. Servante's "Psychology of the Boy", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1930 and 31 Dec 1940
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Leslie Paul
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1905
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: son of father in advertising; later worked for BBC
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: probably foreign edition
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6031  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jonathan Rose
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 453
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 453, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6031, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Leslie Paul, 'First Love', pp.38-9, 88, 94.

 

 

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