Record Number: 16879

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen and handed it round among immediate neighbours (about a dozen usually had some kind of a look at it), and noted down afterwards all the items in the paper that had attracted any comments of any kind. During the whole of this period there was a total of not more than four remarks about the war news at all, and these were of the briefest. Here is a typical set of reactions to looking at the paper - the particular day being February 26th, the day when a Cripps speech was headlined all over the front page: "What's your birthday, Peg?" "June. First half of June. What's it say?" "'No great excitements, but a pleasant, easy-going sort of day.'"...'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

26 Feb 1943

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

factory-worker

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

female worker in machine factory

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Daily Mirror

Genre:

Astrology / alchemy / occult, horoscopes

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16879

Source:

Print

Author:

Jenny Hartley

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

150

Additional Comments:

From Celia Fremlin, "War Factory", 1943

Citation:

Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War, (London, 1999), p. 150, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16879, accessed: 21 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

None