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Record Number: 9986


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Observer a sweet but by mistake holds out bird's peanut tin.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

12 May 1937

Country:

England

Time

afternoon: 12.30

Place:

other location: Midlands

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:

anon

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Son and mother, both consulting the supplement, probably reading bits aloud to each other?


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a]

Title:

Daily Telegraph Supplement

Genre:

Ephemera, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

9986

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, 'May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day Surveys' (London, 1937), p. 279, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk,

Citation:

Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, 'May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day Surveys' (London, 1937), p. 279, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9986, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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