Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955. - Grover, Mary. (Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 At Home with Books -- 2 Running up Eyre Street: Independent Young Readers and the Public Libraries -- 3 Hefty Books and Tuppenny Weeklies -- 4 Reading Scenes: Social Networks and Reading -- 5 'Getting them learned': Books in the Classroom -- 6 The 1937 'Confession Book' of Mary Wilkinson: Reading and the Second World War -- 7 'You can read and dance': Reading in Early Adulthood -- 8 'Anna Karenina, you know, and all the normal things': Sheffield Readers, Classics and the Contemporary -- The Last Word -- Apendix 1: Interview Prompts -- Appendix 2: Informants and Interviewers -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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