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Record 369

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: daytime
Place: city: London
specific address: Leicester Square
other location: bookshop
   
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:Alfred Hitchcock
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 13 Aug 1899
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: office worker, later film director
Religion: Catholic
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:
Title: Cinematograph Lantern Weekly
Genre: Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 369  
Source - Print  
  Author: Donald Spoto
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: the Dark Side of Genius
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1983
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 38-39
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Donald Spoto, The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: the Dark Side of Genius (London, 1983), p. 38-39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=369, accessed: 20 April 2024

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