Record Number: 33440
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Reading a biography of Churchill - did not know much about his career, but going back into the past one can see how it has all grown and how very far-sighted a man he has been almost from the first.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:2 Jul 1941
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
county: Middlesex
specific address: 56 Ladbroke Road
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1 Jan 1901
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Social worker
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Winston Churchill: Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Genre:History, Biography, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Newnes, 1936
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33440
Source:Vere Hodgson
Editor:n/a
Title:Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing How Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:189
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Vere Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing How Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London, (London, 1999), p. 189, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33440, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
There was a revised edition of this biography (Hutchinson, 1940) which may be the one Hodgson read.
