| Evidence: | [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.] |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1921 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | Marie Corelli |
| Title: | The Sorrows of Satan |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 372 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 54 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Donald Spoto, The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: the Dark Side of Genius (London, 1983), p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=372, accessed: 02 June 2023 | |
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