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Record Number: 6029


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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Title:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

6029

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/RED/record_details.php?id=6029, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

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

   
   
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