Sent to preparatory school at the age of seven, WE
obtained the rest of his education on scholarships, first at Winchester School
, where his schoolmates included future academics William Hayter
and John Sparrow
and...
Friends, Associates
Kathleen Raine
KR
felt she was an outsider at Cambridge because she did not come from the upper or upper-middle classes, and because many of her friends there were also outsiders for various reasons. However, they did...
Occupation
William Empson
WE
was an enthusiast for Basic English (a simplified form of the language which he favoured not only for exchanges among scientists and others from different language groups, but also as an introduction to the...
Timeline
By May 1937: Mass-Observation, a social research organisation...
Building item
By May 1937
Mass-Observation
, a social research organisation devoted to observing the habits, behaviour, and opinions of ordinary people, was launched: Surrealist in inspiration, it became documentary and socially inclusive in aim.
“Mass Observation Archive”. University of Sussex Library.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Laity, Paul. “Damsons and Custard”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 18-20.
